[Thunar-dev] Virtual root node

[Benedikt Meurer]

Biju Chacko wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> If you have a separate 'Home' branch in the treeview (and thereby in 
>> the overall file manager) it makes it more logical to have a different 
>> URI scheme (because else you have various URIs that aren't unique, but 
>> refer to different locations in the tree).
> 
> It may be logical, but I think it's not very useful. Why should the user 
>  have to learn another URI scheme? I'm not sure what can be achieved by 
> it that can't be achieved by being able to set arbitrary locations as 
> the root of the current treeview.

Its not meant to be exposed to the User Interface (except for the 
optional location bar). Its used to make the implementation more logical 
(close to the UI).

> -- b

Benedikt