[Thunar-dev] Some ideas to improve Thunar.

[Laurent Meunier]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 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.
> 

The only thing I found weird in the location bar is the difference 
between the last 2 shots. We have :
           /xfce4-svn/gtk-xfce-engine-svn/src/gtk-xfce-engine-2/
and
   /laurent/xfce4-svn/gtk-xfce-engine-svn/src/gtk-xfce-engine-2/

On the last shot, there is exactly the same information as on the 2nd 
shot, plus a button for 'laurent' folder. For me, there is an extra step 
when using the previous that we don't have when using the next button.

Don't be sorry, my explanation wasn't clear (I hope it is better now), 
and don't mind about buttons width as I don't know myself want I really 
want to change ;-)

I would prefer that you spend your time for more important things for 
Thunar.


Laurent