[Thunar-dev] Thunar Architecture (relations)

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Mon Mar 28 10:39:59 CEST 2005


Brian wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
> 
>>But as usual, I'm still open for suggestions on the file properties
>>dialog UI (which dictates what we need for the backend classes):
>>
>>http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:file-properties-dialog
>>
> 
> Hm. I've got another idea for the "things to do when we have too much
> time on our hands" list. For images, replace the mime icon with the
> thumbnail of the image. For example, getting rid of the paintbrush and
> jpg icon in this shot:
> 
> http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/media/ui/20050305-file_properties_general.png
> 
> Since the user will be able to change permissions and the name of the
> file, should we replace the Close button with an Okay/Cancel pair?
> 

Or even Discard / Accept, or Discard / Change permissions, but perhaps 
that's a bit too verbose.

We should try to put good action verbs on buttons, not just ok/cancel. 
Especially 'ok' doesn't give enough information.

	Jasper



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