[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Jari Rahkonen wrote:
> 
>>> Btw: I'm still open for the separate 'Open Location' dialog idea. 
>>> This would offer atleast one advantage: User's know how to handle 
>>> (and get rid of dialogs).
>>>
>> True. I actually like the way this works in gtk-filechooser.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

The main thing for the in-window-firefox-like entry (we need a good name 
for that ;-), besides that it looks cool, is that you can show the 
autocompleted directory in the view window 'real-time' -- see what rox 
does. This will be much less obvious with a separate dialog.

The main disadvantage is that it is less obvious how to get rid of and 
less obvious when changs will take effect (on ENTER? on focus-out?).

Personally I really like the in-window entry and would like to try and 
see if we can make it work.

	Jasper