My personal take on a columns UI is that it puts 2-dimensional data in 2 dimensions (instead of only one dimension). In other words, the file manager shows a folder's parents AND siblings. In a tree view, this is done by expanding both parents and siblings in the vertical direction. In the columns view, parents are expanded horizontally and siblings are expanded vertically. You end up doing a lot less scrolling. I'd really like to see it in Thunar.
*** Bug 6182 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
@ian are you rfering to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns kind of view?
Yes, I discovered later that "Miller columns" are the proper term for this request.
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