[Thunar-dev] user interface ideas

[Erlend Davidson]

DINH Viêt Hoà wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote :
>
>   
>> I guess you're talking about typeahead in GtkTreeView and ExoIconView.
>> That's a different approach. Filtering would show only the matching
>> files/folders.
>>     
>
> I find this typeahead unuseable ...
> and filtering could match some words in the middle of the name.
>
>   
>>>> 2 - Sorting of filenames could be also improved if they were sorted  
>>>> non-case sensitively.
>>>>         
>>> Yes!  I very much agree with this - it's the main reason I used Rox for 
>>> so long.  People don't remember the exact filename and often don't 
>>> remember the case of the first letter.
>>>       
>> As said, there's MiscCaseSensitive. I could probably change the  
>> default
>> to FALSE. Dunno.
>>     
>
> I guess that could be interesting.
>
>   
>>> I'd quite like it to be easier to change between the Location Selector 
>>> between the pathbar and toolbar styles - perhaps if you roll the 
>>> mouse-wheel over it then it switches between being a pathbar and a 
>>> toolbar.  This is useful when you want to copy and paste the path of the 
>>> directory you are in.
>>>       
>> Well, Ctrl+L will always focus the location selector (pops up a dialog
>> in pathbar mode).
>>     
>
> maybe in pathbar mode, it could switch temporarly to location selector  
> so that it won't raise a dialog box.
>
>   
Hmm, that might confuse users - especially new ones - why does it do 
this sometimes, and that other-times?  I still think using the 
mouse-wheel is a good idea - Xfce is the first desktop environment which 
(out of the box) makes good use of the mouse-wheel (e.g. switching 
workspacing, rolling-up windows).  Again though there is a risk of 
confusing users (i.e. why did the location selector just change and how 
do I get it back?)