[Thunar-dev] User interface for the new file manager

[Osni Passos]

The possibility to sail for borders would be interesting, as in
firefox.  What it finds?  In any way I adored this new file mananger.
  tks


On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:25:31 +0100, Benedikt Meurer
<benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> As some of you might already know, work was started on an alternative
> file manager for Xfce 4.4.0, named Thunar. We have been discussing the
> user interface for Thunar during the last two/three weeks. The result of
> this discussion is available at (short summary, see the mailinglist
> archives for details):
> 
> http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:suggestion-20050320
> 
> Since we've made good progress on the UI and a decision on the basic UI
> direction will take place in the not so far future, I wanted to get some
> more feedback from the other Xfce users, that did not raise their voice
> on thunar-dev yet.
> 
> Note that we're just discussion the basic UI direction currently (as
> that's very important to decide before you start to design the
> architecture of the file manager); so please don't concentrate on
> implementation details in your comments, but instead, comment on the
> basic UI direction.
> 
>  From the 4 layouts shown on the summary page, only the first two are
> considered important, because that seems to be the way users want to
> interact with a file manager, where the second layout is probably used
> mostly by advanced users or users that have used Windows Explorer or
> Konqueror before. The first layout is based on the GtkFileChooser design
> in Gtk 2.4 and above.
> 
> Comments please.
> 
> greets,
> Benedikt
> 
> PS: YES, development on Xffm 4.4 continues. And with Xffm switching to
> the spatial view (Edscott, correct me if I'm wrong, but I read that in a
> Wiki comment by you) and Thunar using the navigational view, we'll one
> file manager that follows the browser paradigm and one file manager that
> follows the spatial paradigm, so whatever you prefer, Xfce will offer a
> file manager for you. ;-)
> 
> PPS: Please remember that Thunar's focus is on simplicity and ease of
> use if you want to suggest another feature.
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