[Thunar-dev] Thunar User Interface

[Benedikt Meurer]

Hey guys,

This mail is mostly for the record, since only a few people are already 
subscribed to this mailinglist... but, here it goes:

I've been quite busy lately, so I wasn't able to work for Thunar. But 
today I continued with the User Interface part.

First, I'm collecting links to interesting articles about file manager 
User Interfaces, which can be helpful in deciding on a good UI for 
Thunar. My current links - only the interesting ones, of course :-) - 
are available on the wiki at:

   http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:overview#articles

If you know of any other interesting links, please let me know (or edit 
the wiki for those of you with accounts).

Furthermore, I started with the UI prototyping app today. I decided to 
use Python/PyGTK for this, since Python is more common than Ruby - and 
Perl is simply weird. ;-)

I imported it as design/ui/ to the thunar CVS repository.

  WebCVS: http://thunar.xfce.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/design/ui/
  Developers: :ext:<name>@xfce.org:/var/cvs/thunar (module: design)

(Auke, is anoncvs available for Thunar?)

This python stuff will be used to prototype the User Interface (Yannow, 
its hard to impossible to decide on certain UI aspect if its only in 
your mind). And since its Python and only a hack, more people can be 
involved in the UI design process.

Currently, it contains only the basic view and the fixed file properties 
dialog (I'll update the Wiki ASAP), there are still a lot of open 
issues, so feel free to share your thoughts.

But don't just commit changes; instead, discuss them first on this list.


Thats all for the funny stuff, now on with the administrativa: Auke, can 
we have a thunar-commits mailinglist please? And another thing: The Wiki 
supports sending out change notifications as well; should we send them 
to another mailinglist as well?


greets,
Benedikt


PS: Alex, please fill in the form at http://foo-projects.org/node/3 to 
get an account for xfce.org.

PPS: Botsie bugged me with another name-change mail; is it really 
critical to change the release name for Thunar?

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