[Thunar-dev] Classic UI

[Benedikt Meurer]

Erik Harrison 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.
> 
> b) is great, but I prefer a).
> 
> It provides the same information as a location bar (where am I?), but
> I think makes it clearer by breaking down the path into component
> objects. It performs many of the task of a tree view in a much simpler
> interface. Using it does not require the user switch from mouse to
> keyboard.
> 
> Location bars have the advantage of being able to instantly plunge
> deep into the a hierarchy, but 9 times out of ten bookmarks optimize
> better for that case. The only other advantage that I see of the
> location bar is what you said Benny, that it provides a way to move
> across different name spaces (file:// or search://) but I don't think
> it's the case to optimize for.

Hm, right.

> If I had to pick one or the other, I'd pick the path bar. But I'd love
> a FileChooser like UI where both are available.

Ctrl+L doesn't do the job?

greets,
Benedikt