[Thunar-dev] Browser-like User Interface

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>
>> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>
>>> I did some more work on the browser-like prototype for Thunar, so 
>>> it's easier to compare spatial to browser mode (tho, it's pretty 
>>> much clear, that Thunar 1.0 will use browser mode). A screenshot of 
>>> the improved UI is available here:
>>>
>>>  http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/thunar-browser2.png
>>>
>>> The prototype is available from CVS. A slightly older snapshot is 
>>> available at:
>>>
>>>  http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/thunar-browser-20050227.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Opinions? Suggestions? Criticism?
>>
>>
>>
>> One question brought up by Jean-Francois again today: What about the 
>> "Go" and the "Bookmarks" menu? Having too many toplevel menus doesn't 
>> really make up a simple UI. My idea would be to merge "Bookmarks" 
>> into the "Go" menu, as I don't think, that I would use bookmarks 
>> anyways. But for the same reason, I'm most probably not the best 
>> person to decide on this.
>>
>
> Yes Go and Bookmarks duplicate functionality. Only 'Go' should be 
> enough. BTW, 'Go' is rather difficult to translate, but I don't have a 
> better suggestion now. Don't say favorites ;-)

Firefox has a 'Go' menu - perhaps peek at their translation files to see 
how others translated it?

    -b