[Thunar-dev] Browser-like User Interface

[Benedikt Meurer]

Biju Chacko wrote:
>> Just a quick one from the top of my head:
>>
>> How about having the bookmarks as listview in the (optional) sidepane, 
>> pretty similar to the gtk file chooser dialog. So, the user can 
>> choose, if he wants to display (a) the treeview, (b) the bookmarks or 
>> (c) no side pane at all. That way we could also easily integrate the 
>> Gtk bookmarks into the Thunar UI, as suggested by Francois.
>>
>> Just needed to share that thought before I go to bed. I'll come up 
>> with something like this for the prototype tomorrow, so don't flame 
>> about that idea too early, maybe it even turns out to be useful. ;-)
> 
> Would suggest that each view be contained in a tabcontrol. That would 
> give single-click access to each view. Additionally, I'd suggest a 'X' 
> close button for the pane and a toggle for the pane on the toolbar.

Here's my first try on this:

http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/thunar-bookmarks-try1.png

(IMHO, the notebook looks odd, and makes the whole UI look somehow 
overloaded)

> -- b

Benedikt