[Thunar-dev] Some ideas to improve Thunar.

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Feb 1 14:54:39 CET 2006


Laurent Meunier wrote:
>>>4/ About the location bar and navigation buttons, this location selector 
>>>is very useful... until you don't need the next/previous arrow buttons. 
>>>My idea is to use the same size for all buttons and to fill the location 
>>>bar with them (only if necessary). It's hard to explain (and my english 
>>>is very bad ;-) ), so if you want I could take screenshots to show you.
>>
>>Please take a screenshot then.
>>
> 
> 
> I open Thunar an go to the folder :
> ~/xfce4-svn/gtk-xfce-engine-svn/src/gtk-xfce-engine-2/autom4te.cache
> --> http://fogoh.free.fr/misc/thunar-shot-01.png
> 
> With one click on the previous button, there is still space on the right 
> of the last button ('gtk-xfce-engine-2') even if this button is not 
> really the last, there is still the 'autom4te.cache' after.
> --> http://fogoh.free.fr/misc/thunar-shot-02.png
> 
> And one last click on the same button, the only difference is that there 
> is one more button (home) and the last button is the same as before.
> --> http://fogoh.free.fr/misc/thunar-shot-03.png
> 
> Now, with one click on the next button, I go directly to step 1 
> (01.png). In a way, I need 2 actions to traverse the path, and in the 
> other way, only one.

I'm sorry, but I still don't get what you want to change. Do you want to
 have the same width allocated to all buttons? If so, this would be a
large waste of space IMHO.

> Laurent

Benedikt



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