[Thunar-dev] Classic UI

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>> This is the important question: Location bar or path bar?
>>
>> To be exact, the question is, do we want:
>>
>>  a) http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/20050316-thunar-pathbar.png
>>  b) http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/20050316-thunar-locationbar.png
>>
>> From my POV, b) offers the advantage that (desktop) search can be 
>> integrated as "search://" in the location bar and a search pane on the 
>> left.
> 
> Oooh, tough one.  I personally would find the location bar (b) *very* 
> useful.  Usually when a GtkFileChooser comes up, the first thing I do is 
> hit ctrl+L and type in a directory name.  But at the same time, I make 
> almost as much use of the path bar (I assume that's what we're going to 
> call it from now on to avoid confusion?), especially when I'm navigating 
> my tree of TV episodes in Xfmedia.  Now, it occurs to me that that use 
> case might not spread to a file manager... but it might - I don't know.
> 
> Is it too confusing to have both?  I think perhaps the path bar should 
> be enabled by default, with the location bar hidden.  There's the 
> argument that having two things in the view menu: "Path Bar", "Location 
> Bar", might be confusing since they're similar, but two clicks will tell 
> you the difference with immediate visual feedback (well, ok, four 
> total), so I don't think it's a big deal.

If we ship both interfaces, there should be a config option to choose 
between one of those interfaces/layouts, pretty similar to thunderbird. 
It's not something you do on a regular basis and so it should not be 
present as menu item.

>    -brian

Benedikt