[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
>>>> Screenshot here:
>>>>    http://members.cox.net/brian-schott/LocationBarWithCloseButton.png
>>>>
>>>> I personally don't care if it's there, but I know that there will be 
>>>> some people who trigger the find bar accidentally and think "What's 
>>>> this? I don't want this here. How do I get rid of it?".
>>>
>>> On second thought. Let's not do that. :-)
>>>
>>> http://members.cox.net/brian-schott/LocationBarWithCloseButton2.png
>>>
>>> This way it doesn't look like the button closes the whole window.
>>
>> Hm, how about one of these?
>>
>> http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/20050319-thunar_go1.png
>> http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/20050319-thunar_go2.png
>>
>> Because having both the close and the go button in front of the entry 
>> widget looks really odd to me.
> 
> (1) is much better than (2). Not sure it is necessary yet. The firefox 
> way with the button inside the entry would be best, but probably not 
> really possible with regular gtk.

It's doable with a custom ThunarEntry class, derived from GtkEntry. But 
that'll mess with themes completely (I still think this is about the 
worst bug in Gtk, that derived classes do not inherit the parent class' 
style settings).

greets,
Benedikt