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- yetAnotherCroc, on 05/28/2008, -8/+155Finaly! Only took them seven years...
- MagicIcarus, on 05/28/2008, -8/+99Dugg for not having anything to do with politics.
- n0odles, on 05/28/2008, -14/+97OMG, a miracle some progressive change in Gnome.
- kelstock, on 05/28/2008, -7/+67KDE has been keeping tabs on Gnome for some time.
- ptFoe, on 05/28/2008, -2/+49That looks neat, it's nice to see Gnome listening to users.
There is also Google Summer of Code project to allow Gnome to have different wallpapers for different workspaces.
Now if only they can make the Gnome Screensaver settings configurable. - theWrkncacnter, on 05/28/2008, -2/+43Tabs make everything better
- Tyr7BE, on 05/28/2008, -4/+41They usually end up doing just that. But they'll make the tabs a bit glossier and the unwashed masses all over the world will scream out to the heavens how Apple is Lord of Innovation.
- diggtochina, on 05/28/2008, -1/+30How much work did you put into it??
- num3thod, on 05/28/2008, -1/+25Good, now lets see a dual-panel option.
- inactive, on 05/28/2008, -2/+26Nice, apple, could you please copy gnome and do the same? thanks
- yetAnotherCroc, on 05/28/2008, -0/+23Or they can do both.
- picpak, on 05/28/2008, -0/+22Add in a "Restore from Trash" function and Nautilus is A-OK with me.
- Tyr7BE, on 05/28/2008, -0/+19You must be new to the Linux Desktop scene :)
- Zippo, on 05/28/2008, -0/+18Breasts make everything better... tabs are a close second.
- darkchild, on 05/28/2008, -2/+20I must admit I'm a bit shocked by this development. Not in a negative way, but just pleasantly surprised. The lack of tabs in Nautilus was a major annoyance for me when using GNOME.
- nullx42, on 05/28/2008, -1/+18I see what you did there....
- google01103, on 05/28/2008, -2/+16Actually FireFox stole tabs from Opera and Konqueror probably also had them earlier.
- celkin, on 05/28/2008, -0/+13Obama contributed most of the code. He's also working on jailbreaking the 3G iPhone and building a Quad Core MacBook Pro :D
- Protoss, on 05/28/2008, -1/+12It goes into .trash or, you know the Trashcan...Why would you freak out even a little bit, that's the entire point of the Trashcan/Recycle Bin!
- MWeather, on 05/28/2008, -3/+14Wait, they ADDED a feature to GNOME? I thought they only removed features!
- KhaaL, on 05/28/2008, -1/+11Frankly I think a dual-panel interface is more effective than a tabbed one. But I guess it will take them X years to implement that. Bah, I look forward to use dolphin with a smile once KDE 4.1 goes stable.
- yetAnotherCroc, on 05/28/2008, -1/+10I think they were once not too long ago. But then it disappeared in version 2.20 I think
- wiresjr, on 05/28/2008, -0/+9IIRC, they replaced XScreensaver with Gnome Screensaver, and took all the useful features out. XScreensaver is still floating around in most repositories though, so it's trivial to get it back.
- Sairgem, on 05/28/2008, -1/+9It's about ***** time. What took them so long?
- shoeberto, on 05/28/2008, -0/+8Edit > Preferences > Preview, you can turn thumbnails off or make a filesize limit for which ones it makes a preview for.
- norick, on 05/28/2008, -2/+10Path Finder. Not free, but damn good.
- badassninja, on 05/28/2008, -5/+13YEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!! oh and just so you know, one time I wanted to see if it had tabs so I hit, what else, Control + t a bunch of times. Yeah so this comand puts files and folders into the trash. Before I knew it 14 gigs of very important files were gone ( and no, not porn. lol ) Files so important that I swear I had to force myself to calm down before I passed out. Oh and just so you know, it goes into the .trash folder of whatever drive you were useing at the time. Easy to recover.
- 4321234, on 05/28/2008, -0/+8If you're easily confused by options and features, call it cluttered.On the bad news front, nautilus is now cluttered with tabs.
- priegog, on 05/28/2008, -1/+9Apple copying linux in general. I take it you're not familiar with the whole beagle/finder thing. To be fair it goes both ways, but linux never claims innovation where they did none.
- sublimemm, on 05/28/2008, -5/+12Yeah its not like they had anything more important than this to work on. The ability to have multiple tabs is way more important then the ability to actually put something in those tabs.
- OmegaNine, on 05/28/2008, -0/+7Im sure you still get that feeling of your stimac hitting your toes when you see /bin and /etc missing
- Tyr7BE, on 05/28/2008, -1/+8Neat that they did this, I know a lot of people have been wanting it. I don't care about tabs myself, I usually don't use them outside of a browser context. But still a step forward.
I'm more excited for variable column lengths: http://blogs.gnome.org/cneumair/2008/03/30/compact ... - darkNiGHTS, on 05/28/2008, -1/+8Why does everybody think Opera had tabs first? InternetWorks was the first browser to have tabs, get it straight Opera fanboys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabbed_browsing - f3n1x, on 05/28/2008, -1/+8i was waiting for this for years. (seriously)
hope to see it in other filebrowsers as well. - sark666, on 05/28/2008, -0/+6How about a way to control the column length?! I submitted a bug on this years ago but no results. Even if you argue that a user shouldn't/doesn't need to control the length, it's current implementation is broken.
Open your home dir, the name column will roughly be the length of the longest file/directory name. Fine. Now go to a directory where you have a file/dir that's unusually long; it'll lengthen the columns further. But now go back to your home dir. It will keep the longer length of the previous directory. So it only resizes one way, and does not resize for smaller dir/files. Drives me nuts.
Is there some hack to stop resizing? Not to mention the wasted space on top/bottom of filenames. Look at thunar for more elegant spacing. Lot's of things drive me nuts about nautilus , one of the worst file browsers I've encountered.
Btw, can you drag n drop between tabs for moving files around? Hope there's a way to move/copy between tabs.
And I realize there is that compact column view mentioned on that page. I want column sizing in details view. - google01103, on 05/28/2008, -1/+7Excuse me but "now that the new Dolphin file manager (KDE 4) doesn't have tabs" is false and since the old version of Dolphin didn't your point being is ? And of course Konq has and continues to have (and still is a filemanager) in both kde 3 and 4.
- tribaal, on 05/28/2008, -0/+6For 1. if you use a Debian-based distro you can install the "nautilus-open-terminal" package with your favorite package manager.
There has to be an equivalent package for your favorite non-Debian-based distro :)
Enjoy. - enterneo, on 05/28/2008, -0/+5this would save a lot of time and effort, thanks.
- theaceoffire, on 05/28/2008, -2/+7True, but Firefox made them popular enough for everyone else to take notice.
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5Meanwhile, new developments show that McCain and Bush were responsible for Vista's general suckishness.
- badassninja, on 05/28/2008, -1/+6Because I didn't understand or know what was going on at first. I just knew that it was gone. And whenever I delete anything I always hold down shift and delete so it skips the trash. ( just one more thing to do later on, empty it. ) And I think that when you delete something on a non system drive it doesn't go to the main trash can, I could be wrong.
- thevoiceless, on 05/28/2008, -0/+5Well, they copied the multiple workspaces thing, so...
- MrSarcasm, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4Oh come on. Tabs should have been there years ago. It's good they FINALLY did it, but it's nothing to be excited about - there was no way there couldn't be tabs.
But it's like Apple giving away fullscreen in quicktime for free afters years and years of waiting, and then the fanboys creamed their pants. Digg me down now, apple bitches! - aserer511, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4yeah i am getting linux
- shakin, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4Dolphin has had tabs for a while in the 4.1 dev cycle. You can have some tabs use a dual pane layout and others can be one pane. It works very well, although I would like to see better support for customizing how to open a folder in a new tab (it's double middle-click now, but it should be single middle-click).
You can add a Compare Files button to the toolbar by right-clicking and selecting Configure Toolbars. I understand that's only a good feature for programmers so it's not the default.
I still use Krusader for transferring files from my dev web server to the live server because of its profiles and sync-browse mode. Other than those features Dolphin is better. Unfortunately for Dolphin, those are killer features. - jesuswuzanalien, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4Put it on my tab.
- spacepirate1, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4Although this is a great feature, there are two other features which are also missing, and probably a heck of a lot easier to implement. Both are actually available in Thunar file manager.
1. The ability to open a terminal window within the folder that you are viewing. This avoids the tedious need to type "cd folder_name" a gazillion times, especially when you need to go many folders deep.
2. The ability to right-click on a file (ie music file), open a secondary window which not only allows you to choose the program of preference to open the file, but have a feature which tells the OS to remember this. Next time you double-click on the file your default program will always open the file, regardless of which file manager you use. This is really handy, even Windoze file manager can do that.
I like Thunar too, but Nautilus seems to behave better in the Gnome interface. However, it's really annoying that these two features are missing. I would say far more annoying than not having tabbed-browsing. - missingnoh4x, on 05/28/2008, -0/+4That's awesome, I've been really wishing I could have a different wallpaper on each workspace.
As for gnome-screensaver, there's been tons of flamewars surrounding it. The guy who develops the package insists that any screensaver that needs to be configured is 'broken', etc etc. Okay, since everybody else wants this changed, why the hell does Gnome continue using this ***** thing? - mrBitch, on 05/29/2008, -0/+3Apple demonstrated a tabbed Finder in the previews of Leopard OSX 10.5 way back in 2006.
Why they pulled this feature from the final release is a question for Apple. - MWeather, on 05/28/2008, -2/+5You mean different themes? They've had that for years.
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