That's nice, can we please have column view now?
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2025
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I'd never seen column view but I just looked up pictures and man that seems like it'd be really helpful for my ADHD and poor working memory, its so easy to get lost trying to keep track of what level of nested folder you're in.
And it'd be so nice to just be able to jump laterally instead of navigating up and then going to a different folder
Its a shame now I want something gnome devs will never provide. Maybe someday an independent dev will get tired and build a nice alternative. Perhaps I'll try a different file manager and use a theme
Nautilus already features the tree-view as an option which lets you "jump" laterally, it's in the preferences as "Expandable Folders in List View". Personally i prefer moving up and down the file hierarchy, you have less information to process and you can navigate with the mouse button shortcuts.
Is column view the macOS style?
Yeah, but Dolphin has also had it for ages
I'll take the faster loading thumbnails instead, thanks.
First thing I did when I tried GNOME was replace nautilus with nemo. Then I started adding extensions as time passed to finally realize that I spent too much time recreating KDE with extensions that broke all the time.
Would be cool if damn thing stopped crashing each time I copy-paste folders. Like, optimizations are cool, but isn't it kinda less important?
Great, can we please have a sane sort by system?