[Thunar-dev] Classic UI

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>>>> Address bar - yes! Fantastic! Don't lose it.  For the majority of the
>>>> world (trust me, I am an admin for hundreds of users), the difference
>>>> between a file manager and a web browser is unnoticed.  The more they
>>>> look alike, the more likely that people can and will figure things out
>>>> for themselves.  Address bars are a good thing!
>>
>>
>> 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.
> 

I still very much prefer the path buttons to be the default (providing 
history and quick access to parent directories) with a Ctrl-L shortcut 
to a location bar with completion capabilities.

The Ctrl-L sortcut should solve most of the complaints of people wanting 
a location bar, wouldn't it? The only problem is that it is much less 
visible and discoverable (is that a word?).

	Jasper

PS
I personally dislike putting things in URI's that are not physical 
locations. The search text entry can be in the search side bar I think.