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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.

Interesting

I find myself agreeing. Back and forward become redundant with this new view, and the toolbar is kind of ugly. I can also definitely see the advantages of switching back and forth from browser to spatial. The problem with this becomes, what if you have /path/to/nested/file/ open in 4 spatial windows, you close "to" and "nested", and then hit F9. Nautilus would show "path", "to", "nested", and "file" at the top, but would hitting F9 again reopen all of these?