[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Fri Mar 18 22:04:12 CET 2005


Jari Rahkonen 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?
> 
> Beautiful. This feature is definitely a keeper. The only thing
> I'd like to change about the mockup is the size of the icons in
> icon view. I'd prefer something closer to the default size of
> icons in windows explorer or the 'large' icons in rox. This is
> of course just a matter of taste and hasn't got much to do with
> the location bar...

Hm, large icons in ROX are 64x64 IIRC, while the icon size in the thunar 
mockup is currently 48x48. I think we should support up to 3 different 
icon sizes in Thunar, maybe 22x22 (with the name besides the icon), 
48x48 and 64x64.

> - Jari

Benedikt



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