Offtopic Can't seem to login to bugzilla. Was going to comment on a bug regarding the lock screen not blanking the second monitor. Since a password reset didn't work I guess I've forgotton the username...
...I also notice that QT apps when on the left hand monitor show their menus and tooltips on the right hand monitor too... but I guess that could be a QT4 problem...

This is what I use at work. I'll then maybe open a few windows like these.
Setup like this I can quickly order by size but also the filename section is big enough for most files.
The date section is still viewable but I prefer this to be as small as possible because generally I only use that for ordering files by date. If I need to see the exact date I'll right click the file.

This is my preferred way of working because it's generally quite cross platform. I like being able to arrange each windows separately and I don't use a file tree at any point. Dual pane filemanagers are find but I prefer this way of doing it as I can arrange my thoughts on screen with 3 or more windows.

I love thunar but this is something it can't seem to do. You can achieve the same setup with a Konqueror filemanager profile but I find it unwieldy.

What are yoiur thoughts on this way of working? Do you have a different way of doing it? I can never understand people who use icon view for anything other than pictures for example - how does that work? Do you think it's worth a feature request? What word do I search for on bugzilla or the mailing list to see if this has been discussed before?

edit: apologies for the horrendus gimp skills, I never could get on with gimp!