[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Jeff Franks]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> Brian wrote:
> [snip]
> 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.
>
I'm sorry, but I really have to asked this. You are trying to design an 
a simple and easy to use file manager with a clean GUI. Why are you even 
considering a design with duplicate GUI functionality? You leave out the 
toolbar, a very basic and essential GUI widget that users expect to be 
able to use to access frequently used functions, and you add location 
buttons and a path bar. Although they work differently, the location 
buttons and path bar essentially provide the same function. One or the 
other would be better.

If its worth anything, I prefer the path bar, but not at the bottom. 
It's position should optional. One annoying thing about Firefox is the 
search bar poping up at the bottom of the window. Like many users I use 
tend to use my mouse rather than keyboard shortcuts. I click on the find 
menu item at the top of a maximized Firefox window and then have to move 
my mouse all the way down to the bottom left hand corner of the window 
to enter the search text. It's a long way to travel on a large monitor 
and gets rather annoying after a while. I think having the path bar 
fixed at the bottom would not be a good idea.

Jeff.