[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Adam Scheinberg wrote:
> 
>> 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?
>>  
>>
> "Home" in this sense isn't even a real directory name (presumably, for 
> Benny, it corresponds to /home/bmeurer/).  It's just the root element 
> for the virtual home:// folder.  Note the different icon.  As for 
> preserving case, the idea is to hide the details of the filesystem 
> itself and make it look good to the user, and the names aren't meant to 
> necessarily correspond to folder names anyway.  "Desktop" happens to 
> correspond to ~/Desktop, but that's not the point - it could be $HOME, 
> ~/.gnome-desktop, or whatever (though I think we're probably pretty 
> settled on ~/Desktop).

Yes, ~/Desktop seems to be the new standard now that Gnome and Mozilla 
adopted it.

> As for the shortcuts bar, the stuff above the horizontal line 
> corresponds to what I've discussed above, and the stuff below are 
> user-created shortcuts, and should maintain the correct case of whatever 
> directory it's a shortcut to.

Right; it behaves just like GtkFileChooser.

>    -brian

greets,
Benedikt