[Thunar-dev] Proposed preferences for Thunar

[Jaap Karssenberg]

On Wed, June 29, 2005 11:29, Benedikt Meurer said:
>> - Currently, if you click on a pathbar button which is a superdir of
>> your current location, the subdirectories of the dir you clicked in
>> disappear from the pathbar.
>> 
>> Not only is this inconsistent with the GTK filechooser, it makes the 
>> pathbar less useful,  since if each button represents a directory and 
>> can accept drags, you could put a file into the directory from which you
>> just came, or rapidly switch back and forth, or many other uses.
>> 
>> I think the pathbar should check if the current location is a subdir of
>>  the directory it's changing to. If it is, it should leave the buttons 
>> alone, else it should clear them.
> 
> This was changed per botsie's request. IIRC the exact reason was that it's
> too confusing for a file manager. Anyways, I don't have any real opinion
> here, but whatever the solution will be, it should be targeted at easy,
> intuitive usage, not necessarily power users.

IMHO if you make it look like the gtk filechooser make sure it behaves consistent with it. For the user it is very confusing when things look the same but behave differently. Besides, if the gtk people found this behaviour intuitive enough why disagree with them?

-- Pardus