User interface for the new file manager

[David Fraser]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> As some of you might already know, work was started on an alternative 
> file manager for Xfce 4.4.0, named Thunar. We have been discussing the 
> user interface for Thunar during the last two/three weeks. The result 
> of this discussion is available at (short summary, see the mailinglist 
> archives for details):
>
> http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:suggestion-20050320
>
> Since we've made good progress on the UI and a decision on the basic 
> UI direction will take place in the not so far future, I wanted to get 
> some more feedback from the other Xfce users, that did not raise their 
> voice on thunar-dev yet.
>
> Note that we're just discussion the basic UI direction currently (as 
> that's very important to decide before you start to design the 
> architecture of the file manager); so please don't concentrate on 
> implementation details in your comments, but instead, comment on the 
> basic UI direction.
>
> From the 4 layouts shown on the summary page, only the first two are 
> considered important, because that seems to be the way users want to 
> interact with a file manager, where the second layout is probably used 
> mostly by advanced users or users that have used Windows Explorer or 
> Konqueror before. The first layout is based on the GtkFileChooser 
> design in Gtk 2.4 and above.
>
> Comments please. 

I think Thunar is great, and the layouts look beautiful. I love the 
simplicity and the fact that you're covering the most important needs 
(and especially mine :-))
I hope you don't give up the Python prototype before you get it 
functional as its plenty fast enough for me :-)

David