[Thunar-dev] [Usability] Proposed simplifications

[whistler at fnord.ch]

>
> whistler at fnord.ch wrote:
>> Hm, somehow I think, there's a difference between navigating the file
>> system and acting on the file system. Action happens in the main view,
>> navigation *can* happen in the main view, but it will most often happen
>> in the pure navigational components (favourites pane, tree pane,
>> location bar, location dialog/entry, ...).
>>
>> Or do I miss a point here?
>
> I don't think that the shotcut/favourites/bookmark pane counts as a 
> full fledged
> navigational component. It allows you to jump to a certain point in the
> filesystem hierarchy, but afterwards you have to use some of the other
> navigational components (the tree pane, location bar/dialog/entry)).
>
> In the current implementation, however, you cannot use this combination.
>

Of course the tree-view-pane would have to implement the same file 
manipulation
capabilities as the list view and the icon view. OS X has something similar,
though they don't show the shortcut pane while the tree view is active, I
think.

Raphael