[Thunar-dev] Browser-like User Interface

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Mon Feb 28 19:21:27 CET 2005


Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>> I did some more work on the browser-like prototype for Thunar, so it's 
>> easier to compare spatial to browser mode (tho, it's pretty much 
>> clear, that Thunar 1.0 will use browser mode). A screenshot of the 
>> improved UI is available here:
>>
>>  http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/thunar-browser2.png
>>
>> The prototype is available from CVS. A slightly older snapshot is 
>> available at:
>>
>>  http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/thunar-browser-20050227.tar.gz
>>
>> Opinions? Suggestions? Criticism?
> 
> 
> One question brought up by Jean-Francois again today: What about the 
> "Go" and the "Bookmarks" menu? Having too many toplevel menus doesn't 
> really make up a simple UI. My idea would be to merge "Bookmarks" into 
> the "Go" menu, as I don't think, that I would use bookmarks anyways. But 
> for the same reason, I'm most probably not the best person to decide on 
> this.
> 

Yes Go and Bookmarks duplicate functionality. Only 'Go' should be 
enough. BTW, 'Go' is rather difficult to translate, but I don't have a 
better suggestion now. Don't say favorites ;-)

	Jasper



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