[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Adam Scheinberg]

The close button the left seems to make very little sense from a
consistency standpoint.  It goes against virtually every UI decision
that XFCE implements.  Frankly, on the left, it look not only crowded,
but I'm not even sure what it implies the "X" does.

My take is that an "X" is the wrong way to go entirely.  The "X" looks
more like a delete button than a close button.  I'd sooner see text
that says "Hide" or even a downward arrow or something.  Maybe the
solution is an icon that doesn't suggest anythig goes away or is
deleted as much as it's "tucked" under the visible screen.

Adam

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:37:24 +0200, Jari Rahkonen
<jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
> > Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> >
> >> Brian 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.
> >
> >
> > http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/20050319-thunar_go3.png
> 
> Best one yet, though the close button should definitely
> be on the right for the sake of consistency.
> 
> >
> > Benedikt
> 
> 
> - Jari
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