Tabs in file managers
These days, everyone agrees that tabs belong in webbrowsers. As I’m writing this article, I have nine tabs open, one to write this and eight with the articles I’ll link in it. Without the tabs, I’d have to alt-tab between nine browser windows, like in the days I used Internet Explorer 6. I think tabs are one of the best things the new generation of web browsers have. But do they belong in file managers?
It seems like the ones actually creating the file managers don’t agree either. If you ask the KDE devs, tabs are for power users. That’s why Konqueror has them, and Dolphin hasn’t. At first glance, that seems to be correct. The current branch of Nautilus doesn’t have tabs for the same reason. Neither has Thunar, and (never?) will.
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in responce to article, I like tabs in file managers and personally find that I have become 'reliant' on the feature. It helps me get things done quicker and when it's not there I find myself getting wound up.
Sorry, but from tabs to browsers to the technological superiority of vista (up for debate) that seems like a standard response...
I personally can't hack using Vista/Xp nowadays, so many little features that have been implemented by devs in KDE/Gnome to make life easier for jobs such as file management like tabbed file manager (KDE 2.x upward at least) or split pane view which are just plain missing in M$'s poor excuse of a file manager, it's slow and cumbersome. People look at me like am a bit of a nutter when I try to use these things and I get wound up very quickly by having to take the long way around of doing things.
People shouldn't have to learn how Vista works, if thats what's expected I advise, (and a few have taken me up on this) to move to at least dual boot (which is hard to set Vista up to do)
Sorry Vista is hardly realtime, seen it on a Vista Certified laptop, you get a least the double performance when you stick linux on it. So guess what I did for my sister. Now her laptop behaves in a similar way to XP on the same hardware, fast, reliable (unlike XP) and it even has fully supported effects superior to Aero.
The 'bad?' use of We implies that more than a single person is, is this accurate? Because I know I hold no stock, only but products from Novelle and seek money back from M$