[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian wrote:
>> I think both solutions have their specific advantages and 
>> disadvantages. Popping up a dialog makes it more obvious to users, as 
>> that's the way he's used to. The Firefox-like way - if done right ;-) 
>> - is nice, since the location bar is associated with the main view (or 
>> should be associated with the main view).
>>
>> The issues with the firefox-like way (talking about 
>> http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/20050319-thunar_go3.png):
>>
>>  * How to associated this visually with the main view?
>>  * What about different themes?
>>  * What about the close button?
>>  * What about spacing (the current frame border width makes it look 
>> very busy)?
>>  * What about a11y? E.g. people with motoric disabilities may run into 
>> trouble with the focus-out handling.
>>
>> Don't get me wrong, I think it's a cool feature, but the cool-factor 
>> is less important than the usability-factor. So atleast the issues 
>> mentioned about needs to be addressed first.
>>
>> Ideas? Suggestions? :o)
>>
> Usability for one group of people means a quick and unobtrusive keyboard 
> search, usability to others means a dialog. I'm fine having the dialog 
> be the default, in fact that's a good idea for the reasons you stated 
> above. Is there a way we could keep the "firefox bar" as an option as well?

We could even make the "firefox bar" the default (or the only option), 
if we solve the issues above. So, c'mon guys, gimme solutions. ;-)

greets,
Benedikt