[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Benedikt Meurer 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. 
> 
> 
> 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
> 

You probably understood by now, but let me say once again, I really, 
really like this. A lot ;-)