[Thunar-dev] [Usability] Proposed simplifications

[Benedikt Meurer]

Raphael Bosshard wrote:
> Why:
> a) The bookmarks-pane and the tree-pane perform two very distinct tasks; 
> the first provides a shortcut through the filesystem, the other 
> navigates trough the filesystem. With both being in the sidepane, they 
> exclude each other, which should not be the case. Moving the tree to the 
> filesview-pane (where we already have the location bar, also a 
> navigational component) solves that problem. The tree and the location 
> bar can exclude each other; they are both navigational components.

Dunno. Xffm has that already. People who prefer tree navigation in the 
main view will most probably prefer Xffm anyways.

> b) Wouldn't a Location-Dialog (think GtkFileSelector) suffice?

I'm all for this. I don't see a real need for a location bar as text. 
Using a location-dialog will be as fast as using the location bar text 
entry:

  1) Hit Ctrl+L to open the dialog/focus the location text entry
  2) Type the URI
  3) Hit Enter

But I'm pretty sure somebody will come up with a (pseudo) argumentation 
_for_ the location text entry. ;-)

So, since the architecture is highly modular, we'll most probably leave 
it as an option and leave it to the user to decide.

> Raphael

greets,
Benedikt

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