[Thunar-dev] Replied about paths and typing text

[Joe Crawford]

> >>amount of sense.  It's just hard to make them *both* discoverable
> >>without having an extra menu item that does almost the same thing.
> >>
> Do they both really need to be easily discoverable? Couldn't you just
> make Ctrl+L the 'official' one and have / as a 'hidden' shortcut for
> consistency with GtkFileChooser? No need to clutter the menus when
> simple and usable is what you want.
 
Yep, I agree.

> I could get used to this, I guess. Except that typing a slash should
> not continue a relative path, when the path is preselected. It should
> of course replace the path with a slash (to start an absolute path).
> I presume you did mean slash (/) instead of backslash (\). Otherwise
> I just didn't get the point.
> - Jari

Yes, you are completely right on all counts, I meant slash. Sorry...
typr-o! And yes, I meant that pushing slash to bring up the path text
and then pushing slash again should of course be writing a absolute
path as you say.

> 
> I would switch between buttons and text very often. It's great feature
> to let me copy/paste the path from/to command line tools.
> 
> Many users will love this.
> 

Yes!!! Yes!!!  Glad somebody understands!

I do that all the time.... I also cut/paste the paths from good file
browsers into other program's open dialogs when they have bad open
UI's and make paths hard to reach (old gtk... ukkk).

Its convenient.


Sincerely,

Joe Crawford
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