[Thunar-dev] Virtual root node

[Biju Chacko]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> I came across this question yesterday evening:
> 
> Should we have a virtual root node like `Computer' (Gnome) or something 
> like that? So all other nodes (Filesystem, Home, Removable Media) are 
> children of that node.
> 
> The reasons leading to this:
> 
>  1) With the current design ideas, we have a special URI media type 
> 'home://' that refers to files belows the users home directory. And 
> going `Up' from 'home://' should not be possible (atleast it should not 
> jump to 'file:///usr/home' then). But not being able to go `Up' from 
> $HOME is a bit too restrictive and not very easy.
> 
>  2) Having 3 or 4 toplevel root nodes in a treepane seems to be very 
> uncommon for a software that handles files/directories. A single root 
> node seems to be the common case here (e.g. `Computer' in Gnome, 
> `Desktop' in Windows, `/' in KDE, ...).
> 
> Opinions?

If you run nautilus --browser, the treeview has two toplevel nodes: Home 
and Filesystem. That seems fairly reasonable.

I really don't see the need for a special 'home://' URI. What's wrong 
with 'file://'? IAC, in the default view you won't be showing the URI 
will you?

-- b