Richard Owlett wrote:
Jon Dowland wrote:On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 06:52:35AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:I'm running Debian 6.0.5 with the default gnome desktop. The default file browser (Nautilus?) does not give the view/perspective I need.If you are planning to upgrade to Wheezy, these are the steps required for nautilus 3.4.2-1+build1: 1) If the sidebar is not showing, press F9 to show it. 2) Go to View → Sidebar → Tree They may or may not work in 6.0.5/squeeze-era nautilus (2.x?) They may or may not work in more recent nautilus versions, which have recently gone through a feature purge: http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2012/08/30/on-nautilus/The tree view in left panel doesn't do it for me.
We'll change "doesn't" to "didn't" ;/
I suspect there is a problem in shifting from a device oriented view of the world to a *nix world view and I'm stuck in limbo. Real solution may depend on arrival of an "AHA" moment ;/
Seems the "AHA" moment may have arrived. I spent several hours away from my machine. I started looking at one of my Windows drives with Nautilus. I can see now that they just used a different convention to graphically represent the relationship between parent and child directories. May be uglier, but the same information is there.