[Thunar-dev] Spatial or not-spatial?

Auke Kok sofar at xfce.org
Wed Mar 2 17:37:31 CET 2005


Jens Luedicke wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:12:42 +0100, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
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>>I agree. Like I said during the discussion, it is exactly how I use Rox
>>currently. Alexander's comment was that it a navigational interface
>>needs a way to tell the user where they are. So, a location bar (not
>>nice), a tree (doesn't really fit the design) or perhaps something like
>>the path buttons in the gtk file chooser.
>>
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>I started to like those path buttons in the GtkFileChooser and I think they 
>might be a good replacement for a location bar. Thunar won't include a 
>browser so http:// or ftp:// urls don't need to be entered.
>
>just another 0.02 EUR
>

I think that's a very undervalued tip. This would mean very instant 
access around the filesystem. Long pathnames might need some 
uncluttering tho, but the idea sounds *very* good.

sofar



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