[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> I tried to implement Brian's suggestion about the Firefox-like 
> location bar:
>
> http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/20050318-thunar-open_location_bar.png
> http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/20050318-thunar-open_location_bar.tar.gz
>
> After trying it for a while now, I think it's a very handy feature, 
> and it does not clutter the interface as it's only visible when you 
> fire the Open Location action (e.g. Ctrl+L).
>
> Opinions?

Looks really cool.  I don't have time to actually look at the mock-up 
now, so maybe you've already done this, but it probably makes sense to 
have a File->Open Location...  menu item which will make the bar visible 
(presumably, after you enter a path, it'll hide itself again).  I'd say 
put it in the View menu ("Show Location Bar"), but it feels like it 
should be more of a transient dialog kind of thing, so perhaps File is 
appropriate.  Perhaps also have a little "X" button in the far right of 
the bar to close the bar without doing anything (presumably, hitting 
escape will do the same).

    -brian