[Thunar-dev] Spatial or not-spatial?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>> Ok, now on with the UI related parts...
>>
>>>> Hoever, Benny definately has got a good formula (needs maybe one or 
>>>> two things to make it really usable, but the concept is good) with 
>>>> the mockup he presented us. It reminds me strongly of the gtk 
>>>> file-chooser, and that is IMO a good thing (as I also stated in the 
>>>> talk).
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>>> I agree. Like I said during the discussion, it is exactly how I use 
>>> Rox currently. Alexander's comment was that it a navigational 
>>> interface needs a way to tell the user where they are. So, a location 
>>> bar (not nice),  a tree (doesn't really fit the design) [...]
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>> Sorry if I missed a point, but which design do you mean here?
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> The navigational one. Important for me is that there is only one window. 
> I know where my files are, so I just go there. If I want to move/copy it 
> somewhere else I open a new window and drag things over. This is most 
> likely not the way most users work.
> 
>>> or perhaps something like the path buttons in the gtk file chooser.
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>> The GtkFileChooser attempt is quite nice for a file open dialog. I 
>> wonder if it would work for a file manager as well.
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> 
> I have know idea. But the point about missing information about the 
> location, in navigational mode, is a good one.

Concerning the GtkFileChooser way: Do you know Evidence? It is intended 
to become the default file manager for E17 - which will be released soon 
after Hurd 1.0. *muhaha*

It features a GtkFileChooser-like `location bar'.

http://evidence.sourceforge.net/features.html

Benedikt