[Thunar-dev] Browser-like User Interface

[Biju Chacko]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> 
> The reason for the tabs was botsie's request for a one-click solution. 
> If it doesn't need to be a one-click solution, I'd prefer the Nautilus 
> way of having a `button-menu' instead of notebook tabs over the View 
> menu solution, because I think that way its more obvious that the 
> sidebar can display different things. Of course, we could do the View 
> menu solution in addition.

I think having both makes sense. The menu is easily navigable via the 
keyboard and the buttons would be easy to click. A keyboard shortcut 
would probably be a good idea too.

Also, convention states that all functionality of an application should 
be accessable through the menu.

-- b