[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Adam Scheinberg]

Okay, semi-dumb question -- why is the first folder of the pathbar
called "Home" with a capital H?  I get the idea, which is that it
doesn't matter and it looks like a more "official" place, but since
you've preserved the case of the subfolders, shouldn't all the visible
locations - desktop, rodent, home, all be lowercase (read: the actual
case of the folders to which they link)?

The only arguable one is filesystem, which I assume drops you into /. 
Are these names coming from the GTK+ boxes or from the code?


Adam

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:36:26 -0500, Dan Miller <dev-sources at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> 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
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