[Thunar-dev] Open Location Dialog

[Emil Jacobs]

On 6/30/05, Phrodo_00 <phrodo.00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new over here and I really like the idea behind thunar. I've joined
> to the list 'cause actually I don't think something like the Open Location
> Dialog or the location bar is necesary, it would bloat the interface hard,
> instead, what would be really cool is to do something like what the
> open/save gtk dialog does when whe wanna write the name of a file, you know,
> a floating focused textbox,  only with absolute paths, a little bigger and
> with a drop-down menu to show the possible places you wanna go (as when you
> press tab in the console) when there are not more of ten or maybe few
> options, this little dialog could be called by a key shorcut for fast access
> and from the menu for easy access, maybe in some toolbar too if there's any.
>  anyway, I'm not an usability guru or something, I'm just a user that wants
> to help a little this proyect.
> -- 
> 

We had this discussion, the outcome was that we liked the "Firefox
search" approach and dealt with it this way. Having a seperated window
for entering an uri is really consistent with what (the majority of
the) users expect from a filemanager or a browser anyway.
Cheers

Emil