My Nautilus Wishlist

• Be like the spatial Finder.
• Tell people who need functions like those in two-pane or Norton-style, or GMC-style (same as Norton, eh?), or IE-style (browseritis) file managers to use a file manager like that. (Linking to every bugzilla or mailing list request for these things would probably take forever.)

I seem to remember a time when most people used whatever file manager was the default and all the nerds used something else. Actually, that time is now: I know at least one person with a shortcut to some other file manager on his Windows desktop.

My GNOME Wishlist

I probably need a month to remember my whole list. I'll try to keep this down to things I don't see any progress on.

• Straighten up the GConf keys. These have been done in a haphazard manner and it shows. Trying to fix one thing, I found no less than 3 keys that looked right - and the problem isn't fixed universally, though all are now the same. There's also a mess of near duplicates and no way to tell which is valid. Documentation is missing for many keys. There's at least one key called http_proxy that should be proxy/http (along with proxy/ftp, etc.)
• All the control panels need Undo.
• Have something like AppleScript and the tool that records actions. (This and Undo go together, IMO) It's important that this be smarter than just recording events or signals. Something like ButtonPress-PointerMotion-ButtonRelease needs to be compressed to Select or Move or Copy. Should scripting/recording be done through CORBA? ATK? (doesn't ATK use CORBA?) or something else?
• Support bundles and use them.
• Abandon FHS. Use LSFH. (OK. So this applies more to distributions than to GNOME, but how much of the infrastructure will it change?)