Popularizing The Column Browser
Miller columns are most well known today as the "Columns" view of the Mac OS X Finder, as well as the "Browser" view in iTunes. The columns in Finder descend directly from the NeXTSTEP File Viewer's use of Miller columns going back to 1986. The GNUstep project continues to offer a Miller column browser that closely follows the NeXT approach, bringing the advantages of a Column browser to Linux, BSD, and other operating systems with large tree structures. The iPod's browsing of categories and audio file tag attributes is reminiscent of column browsing, but only one column is visible at a time. Many software music players implement a "tag browsing" feature that utilizes Miller columns. An implementation of a columns view is also available in the Dolphin file manager in KDE 4. Marlin, a Linux file-browser created for elementaryOS, also includes a columns view.
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