User interface for the new file manager

[abo]

will thunar depend on any xfce component or will be possible to install
it separately?

thx

abo

El dom, 20-03-2005 a las 23:25 +0100, Benedikt Meurer escribió:
> 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.
> 
> greets,
> Benedikt
> 
> PS: YES, development on Xffm 4.4 continues. And with Xffm switching to 
> the spatial view (Edscott, correct me if I'm wrong, but I read that in a 
> Wiki comment by you) and Thunar using the navigational view, we'll one 
> file manager that follows the browser paradigm and one file manager that 
> follows the spatial paradigm, so whatever you prefer, Xfce will offer a 
> file manager for you. ;-)
> 
> PPS: Please remember that Thunar's focus is on simplicity and ease of 
> use if you want to suggest another feature.
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