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

[Yo'av Moshe]

I think that opening the menu using right click is a waste of good
option, because if we´d want to use that to have
super-easy-file-management, it´s not the helpful.

That´s what I mean: Let´s say you´re dragging a file and want to move
it somewhere. You can drag it to one of the folders at the path, but
it´s not that easy to use right click while you´re holding the left
one.

That´s why I think we should use a 2 seconds timer, or so, to open a
menu that navigates from that location. Actually, even if the user
didn´t meant to open the menu, it shouldn´t distract him as it opens
below the button.

Yo´av.

On 8/6/05, Javier Aravena <phrodo.00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't thought of that, it's a good point
> 
> 2005/8/5, Ori Bernstein <rand_chars at rogers.com>:
> > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 23:10:05 -0400, Javier Aravena <phrodo.00 at gmail.com>
> said:
> > 
> > > the trouble with nested menus is that are unusable as in, clicking in a
> menu
> > > is quite dificult and the hand tends to describe a curve instead of a
> rect 
> > > line, in fact, if nested directory popup menus were good we'd use them
> > > instead of file open/save dialogs, I like the one menu thing 'cause you
> save
> > > one click, but viewing is not optimal, however I guess we could have an 
> > > option like a listbox labeled "location bar left click (or keep pressing
> the
> > > mouse wutton or whatever tht's said in good english) action" with "show
> no
> > > folder menus", "show one level folder menus" and "show nested folder
> menus" 
> > 
> > Why an option?
> > Having the menus nested doesn't hurt usability. If someone has trouble
> > navigating the nested menus, then they simply don't use them - *BAM*. Back
> to
> > the single menu.
> > 
> > Essentially, from a usability standpoint, it seems to me like it's a
> freebie. 
> > If someone can navigate the nested menus effectively, they can quickly
> drill
> > down into a deep hierarchy, but if they can't use them effectively,
> they've
> > still got the first level of the nested menus to use, completely
> unimpaired by 
> > the nesting that's going on.
> > 
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