[Thunar-dev] user interface ideas

[Benedikt Meurer]

DINH Viêt Hoà wrote:
>>That was discussed some time ago already. It makes a simple UI look
>>cluttered and unusable.
> 
> That could be some non-intrusive change.
> Something than can be resized (or enabled/disabled)

It's not as trivial as it may seem, and it's way to easy to mess up the
user interface (see Konqueror fm part for an example here).

>>>4 - backspace as a shortcut to remove files should be nice.
>>
>>For consistency with other applications Backspace is a shortcut for " 
>>Go
>>Back". You can use Delete to remove files.
> 
> Then, that shortcut should be shown in the menu.

GTK+ can only display one of the accelerators.

> An other thing for the folder content :
> 'Date modified' could show only the time when it was modified today,
> show date without year (day/month or month/day depending on  
> localization)
> when it's modified this year and complete date when it's modified on  
> an other year
> (day/month/year or month/day/year depending on localization).

File a feature request.

Benedikt