[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Dan Miller]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> 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).
>

It looks great! Could it be moved above the pane? If you want a "X" for 
it to disappear, how about something similar to Thunderbird search field 
where the "X" is inside on the right hand side of the field. Then have 
"Go" just to the right of the field istead of the left. I agree that 
there should be a view that allows to show the location bar. Otherwise 
it will show when user wants it and then will go away.

Dan