[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

Jari Rahkonen jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi
Sat Mar 19 19:16:23 CET 2005


Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> The location bar on the bottom looks somewhat cool; but I think the 
> better way - speaking of consistency - would be to use a separate open 
> location dialog. I'm also thinking about a11y here, as that seems to 
> be a problem with the hide on focus-out, etc.
>
> Can we perhaps collect the arguments contra the separate dialog? 
> That'd make it easier to decide.
>
When this was first discussed here I remember someone saying that
a separate dialog would just clutter the desktop needlessly and
could cause confusion as to which thunar window the dialog belongs
to. I don't think this is really a valid point though, at least if
the dialog is modal (and opens centered on the parent window).

> greets,
> Benedikt

- Jari



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