Mark Shutttleworh, the head honcho over at Canonical and Ubuntu, has given an interview to derStandard.at during the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. He talks about GNOME 3.0, the struggle to improve the user experience on the Linux desktop, as well as various other things.
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Member since:2005-07-06
No, he is referring to WinFile, the file manager in windows 3.1. You have 2 panes - each pane has a a complete explorer. Thus you can navigate to a source directory on the left pane (and the left pane also shows the contents of the directory), and then navigate to a destination directory in the right pane (which also shows the contents of the destination directory). This makes it easy to drag and drop betwen source and destination directories - in one window, not multiple explorer views. Also, drive icons appear in a toolbar above both panes, for quick switching to drives.
This is usually known as the Norton Commander view - a tribute to the old DOS standby. I, and many others greatly prefer this view. On Windows I was greatly disappointed when they torched Winfile and replaced it with Explorer. I hate massive scrolling up and down to find things (think bad web page design!). When I am on Windows, the first thing I install is Powerdesk, so I can get my two panes back. Linux has many variants, including the old standby Midnight Commander.
To me, Explorer typifies Microsoft's idea of usability. The only thing worse is the Ribbon!
Member since:2005-07-11
No, what the OP described (smaller left pane with a tree view) is *exactly* how Windows Explorer (in Explore mode) works. You have the directory tree in a pane on the left, and the directory contents in the pane on the right.
He is comparing that to the "My Computer" mode of Windows Explorer where you get just the directory contents in a single window.
Read what the OP wrote, again, and you'll see.
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2005-07-06
But what you try to describe is indeed how the Windows Explorer looks like? No?