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Nautilus Enhancements

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Some new enhancements are finding their way into Nautilus. The first is new tree functionality complete with auto-expand for dnd to the spatial Nautilus list view, much like what is seen here on a Mac. Nautilus now has the ability to create a new file when dragging and dropping text into a Nautilus window. The next enhancement is a patch that adds GTK2 Bookmarks like seen in the new GTK file chooser to Nautilus. Also this patch adds a new sidepanel plug-in for the Nautilus browser that mimics the GTK FileChooser. And finally this patch adds the pathbar as seen in the GTK2 file chooser to the Nautilus browser. Screenshot of the latter 2 features mentioned is here.

Drop Stack?

These are excellent new features and will make the "weak" (in my opinion) spatial browsing more usable.

Related to Mac inspired design...
I find Cocoatech's Pathfinder for OS X to be a pretty innovative file manager. Perhaps the most useful feature is the Drop Stack which allows the user to drag & drop files to a temporary "stack" for copying elsewhere in the system. Kinda like ctrl-c but with a visualized temporary destination.

http://www.cocoatech.com/images/demo/mainBrowser.html

It would be pretty cool to have a drop stack in Nautilus.