[Thunar-dev] Browser-like User Interface

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> Biju Chacko wrote:
>
>>> Just a quick one from the top of my head:
>>>
>>> How about having the bookmarks as listview in the (optional) 
>>> sidepane, pretty similar to the gtk file chooser dialog. So, the 
>>> user can choose, if he wants to display (a) the treeview, (b) the 
>>> bookmarks or (c) no side pane at all. That way we could also easily 
>>> integrate the Gtk bookmarks into the Thunar UI, as suggested by 
>>> Francois.
>>>
>>> Just needed to share that thought before I go to bed. I'll come up 
>>> with something like this for the prototype tomorrow, so don't flame 
>>> about that idea too early, maybe it even turns out to be useful. ;-)
>>
>>
>> Would suggest that each view be contained in a tabcontrol. That would 
>> give single-click access to each view. Additionally, I'd suggest a 
>> 'X' close button for the pane and a toggle for the pane on the toolbar.
>
>
> Here's my first try on this:
>
> http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/thunar-bookmarks-try1.png
>
> (IMHO, the notebook looks odd, and makes the whole UI look somehow 
> overloaded)

Agreed.  Perhaps put it in the menu?  Maybe have a submenu of the View 
menu that contains just radio menu items:

View
`- Sidebar
     +- o None
     +- o Filesystem Tree
     `- o Bookmarks

Though I'm not too hot on "Filesystem Tree".  "Tree" sounds too 
nonspecific, and "Filesystem" sounds too general.

    -brian