[Thunar-dev] * ala firefox

[Joel Jansson]

Hejsan!

I've been thinking on userinterfaces and began to wonder why filmanagers usually have that sidebar and for me, this is a way to get fast access to another directory.

Well, I thought about the idea of having a userinterface where the catalogtree is shown in either a meny or by pressing a button on, or pressing the the mouse.

This would give you a big singel area for your file list and a fast way to change dirs. It could also create a small userinterface containing something like four buttons and a "Here you are"-panel(what is it called?).

The buttons could be back, home(to be pressed for a meny), up and forward.

Ok, this interface has it's drawbacks but it could work  ... but my guess is that it wont be add to thunar ;) ...

The primary interface they've choosen seems to be quite good, as long as you can choose away the sidebar.

Btw, with the development of thunar, wich will bring two filemanagers to xfce, will you be able to install xfce without either of them? (I am a bit new to linux(i away) and as I've understood, you cant install xfce without the filemangar, right?)

/biitar

-----Original Message-----
From: Emil Jacobs <q.collective at gmail.com>
To: xfce file manager <thunar-dev at xfce.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:41:13 +0100
Subject: Re: [Thunar-dev] * ala firefox

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:27:44 +0100, Joel Jansson <biitar at home.se> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Here is another suggestion from another pesky little end user! ;) ...
> 
> I know that you have desided not to use a spatial filmanager and you want this to be a small and easy-using little thing and I dont know is someone aks this allready ... but what about adopting tabs from firefox?
> 
> I know that it is a bit unnecessary if you already have a sidebar for orientation and bokmarks ... but sometimes you want two or more filmanagers open for comparison or to quick copy between them or something like that ... but you dont want a lot of windows open that clutter up your screen ... Tabs is something I really like with firefox and I think it could be a good idea for a filemanager too!

I second this wholeheartedly!
I also believe that tabs are a very handy feature, it should at least
be an option for users to have. The very succes of konqueror as a
filemanager proofs that (I know a lot of persons, including myself,
that use konqueror in their respective environment without ever using
kde).
But it seems that the main developers (afaik read: Benedikt) hate it
for some weird reason, I would like some good explaination on why
really (besides "bad habbit" I got thrown at in irc ;))
Cheers

Emil
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opy between them or something like that ... but you dont want a lot of windows open that clutter up your screen ... Tabs is something I really like with firefox and I think it could be a good idea for a filemanager too!

I second this wholeheartedly!
I also believe that tabs are a very handy feature, it should at least
be an option for users to have. The very succes of konqueror as a
filemanager proofs that (I know a lot of persons, including myself,
that use konqueror in their respective environment without ever using
kde).
But it seems that the main developers (afaik read: Benedikt) hate it
for some weird reason, I would like some good explaination on why
really (besides "bad habbit" I got thrown at in irc ;))
Cheers

Emil
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