[Thunar-dev] more ideas on the location bar (and microsoft stole the idea)

[Ori Bernstein]

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:45:47 -0400, Sebastian Raterman <daeluin at skizzers.org>
said:


> Here's a working link:
> http://www.meversusthem.com/vista/index.php?image=6c80033a7d3fa1c3fec0d7a87d0aeba8
> 
> I like Javier's idea as well.  The arrows detract from the simplicity of 
> the path, yet the feature could  be useful. A click delay could work, 
> yet might not be intuitive or speedily used.
> 
> What is the current right-click action for path icons in the location 
> bar? (There doesn't seem to be one for my version of the gtk chooser.) 
> Left-click takes you to that folder, right-click could bring up the 
> sub-dir list for that folder. Would be intuitive and useful.
> 
> I've been following this list for a few months, the work you're doing is 
> great. Thanks!

If this sort of thing is implemented, I'd like to see it allow going into
subdirectories of the subdirectories, sorta like what the BeOS tracker does
(or so I gathered from some screenshots I saw).

(screenshot: http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7875/tracker-beos.png)


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