[Thunar-dev] Thunar User Interface

[Biju Chacko]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Biju Chacko wrote:
> 
>>> Somehow I think, the Konqueror `General' tab looks very clean - 
>>> talking about the overall layout - compared to the current one (which 
>>> is almost identical to the Nautilus one). Suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Personally, I like the Nautilus way of grouping content. All those 
>> separators make it look busy. Wider gaps are cleaner imho.
>>
>> As for the permissions tab:
>>
>> * move sgid, suid attributes to an "Advanced Permissions" dialog. The 
>> majority of the time they will not be used, so why show them?
> 
> 
> Similar to Konqueror then?

Yes, but without the dropdowns for permissions ... nautilus style is 
clearer.

> 
>> * Move "Text view" of permissions to the general tab and get rid of 
>> the number view.
> 
> 
> "Text view" would be named "Permissions" then in the general tab, which 
> is a bit confusing, since there's also a tab named "Permissions". Any 
> ideas for a better name? "Mode"?

I think that "Permissions" twice would be least confusing. The other 
options that I thought about are far more confusing or unwieldy.

-- b