[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Benedikt Meurer]

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. 

Currently it's Go->Location..., but I guess File->Open Location is better.

> 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).

Escape or focus-out hides the location bar.

>    -brian

greets,
Benedikt