[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-21 Thread seamus
My two user`s cents: 1. Let the Location bar distinct : it allows to display large paths and 2. Let the Location bar distinct : it allows to display LARGE PATHS! -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-21 Thread antistress
i agree with seamus : Let the Location bar distinct to display large paths Besides : - improve nautilus search http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428568 - Sidebar should categorize items displayed with headings http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508404 -- Nautilus file browser

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-21 Thread ShawnJGoff
I much prefer the having the button to switch between breadcrumbs and text url. We're talking about getting rid of redundancy, if we have both, it's just plain horrible. If you use the button that switches the breadcrumbs to the text, it stays that way when you open nautilus next time. Also, if

Re: [Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-21 Thread Nick G
I dislike the idea of a switching button, it seems indecisive. If you take a look at the explorer breadcrumbs link i posted previously the idea is that there is no need for a toggle button, click a location to go back/forward, double click to convert to text, arrows in between to allow branching

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-21 Thread Jean-François Fortin Tam
I hope you guys are not serious about inflicting this on your users. If you want to simplify things, the gnome guys already did it for you years ago, with spatial nautilus (you know, the default nautilus mode that Ubuntu specifically patched out to not be the default?), which was the hallmark of

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-20 Thread toobuntu
To those who advocate removing the 'up' button: I disagree. It was removed in Windows Vista, and someone had to make a shareware app to put it back in. There are those of us who think linearly, and who use the location bar by default. For us, it is a lot faster to use the up button than to use

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-20 Thread Marcus Carlson
Even better, allow full customization of the toolbar like Firefox does. Working on it :) For more info see [1] or look at the WIP screenshot [2] [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42834 [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=138712action=view -- Nautilus file browser

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-20 Thread Dread Knight
** Tags added: gnome gui nautilus -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-20 Thread David Siegel
Great work, everyone, but it is clear that this is not trivial to fix, and therefore is not a paper cut. ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Confirmed = Invalid ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Milestone: round-4 = None -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant,

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-19 Thread antistress
indeed -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-19 Thread antistress
concerning my comment 130, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428568 is related ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #428568 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428568 -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread mac_v
@Marcus: sure, no problem... I'v been using your ppa in Karmic, and my observations: 1: I Find the lack of the Up Button crippling. I would even suggest replacing the Home button with the Up button. But I have realized there is more space wasted due to the 2 drop down buttons. We could remove

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread mac_v
Oh... and before people jump on the Up not needed because of breadcrumbs. Up is more useful than the Home , since Home takes you to one specific folder, While using Up you can go to any parent folder. Without moving the mouse , by just repetitive clicking in one location, which is easier than

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Psy[H[]
Agree. And we do not need Home button, since Home is a place and the best place for a place is places :) -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Danielsan474
Great job Marcus! Only two things: 1. we could move Home and Search icons to places area, we need to free space on main toolbar. I didn't like the double url-bar and search-bar. 2. in Places area, Home reference is ok, instead for Search (icon + Search label) we could have an input text field.

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Danielsan474
I made some changes on Marcus mockup to explain my latest ideas... 1. for url-bar (a power-user solutions to browse) CTRL-L like firefox and other apps 2. for location I made a mockup but I not so sure that could be usefull. We have already Go menu in toolbar and less-is-more. I didn't put my

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Marcus Carlson
mac_v 1) About the drop down buttons I agree they take up a lot of space and by using Firefox style you mean right clicking the button? mac_v 2) Yes I know, I've hardcoded it. Do we want to use the global setting for nautilus? Personally I've never liked it because the applications I used a lot

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Marcus Carlson
Danielsan474 - ahh, I now see what you mean. -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Danielsan474
on nautilus-human-danielsan.png mockup: 1. like someone wrotes here, HOME is a place so I put this item in left-area (aka Places area) 2. I like the two-status concept of Refresh-Stop and I place this icon-button between Backward and Forward icons. If I don't want go back or go forward, I

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Danielsan474
marcus 1) Can't it be psychological to have a Home icon to click if I get lost? yes, it could be but Home is a place, not an action (go backward, make a jump-refresh, go forward). The same for Search. In fireforx we didn't have a left-area to put these items. marcus 2) Input textfield in the

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Danielsan474
Looking forward... since my left-area concept share some ideas with gnome-shell project, this one should be an optional in long-run. It depend on what a user want to do: click on Activities (gnome-shell) every time or use search- places-folders in nautilus window. -- Nautilus file browser

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread mac_v
@Marcus , The Firefox style , i think you got it from Danielsan's explanation... if not, firefox drop-down shows both the Back Forward locations Other problems I found 1: The Search button is too close to breadcrumbs , its now easier to trigger this bug

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread antistress
* About the Search button/field : Danielsan474 said (comment 114) : instead for Search (icon + Search label) we could have an input text field. We don't need to click on a search-icon, open a windows or whatever and digit some text; we could write directly on that field. If Joe wants more,

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread mac_v
antistress wrote: Moving the the Search button away from the other doesn't seem a good idea to me in terms of usability Could you explain why? But my reasons for suggesting moving search to the right: The search is not the most commonly used navigation , If you use the ppa , you will realize

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Marcus Carlson
Upstream has said they won't commit any patch that will change the toolbar and instead encourage working on the toolbar editor. (As I will try to do) -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification

Re: [Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Nick G
Will they not even consider changes to the location of the zoom options nor the stop/reset amalgamation as those wouldn't really be fixed by an editor. 2009/7/18 Marcus Carlson launch...@mejlamej.nu Upstream has said they won't commit any patch that will change the toolbar and instead

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Marcus Carlson
Feel free to ask them :-) -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread mac_v
@Marcus Carlson: So does that mean this bug can be closed? What about your ppa? would you stop working on it? Either way, really appreciate the effort you took so far for this bug. :) Also, any links/reports or discussions regarding the toolbar editor work ,would be nice -- Nautilus file

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Marcus Carlson
mac_v, as far as I know Ubuntu doesn't want to have a lot of patches to drag along, so continue working on this is just a waste of time, correct David? But if Ubuntu would like to have patch for this I'd be willing to help. The upstream bug for a toolbar editor is at [1] and there is an old

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread antistress
The upstream bug for a toolbar editor will not solve everything since everybody here seems agree to say that Home and Computer should be only in sidepane and sidepane is not configurable to add Computer -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread antistress
Besides i've never find the Nautilus Search UI to be intuitive. It's very hard to understand as far as i'm concerned. Maybe the only Search button/entry effect should be to launch a dedicated application (gnome-search-tool today (or a GUI for Beagle/Tracker), Zeitgeist tomorrow for instance) ?

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-18 Thread Psy[H[]
Mounted media is already in side-panel, So there is no need for this fake computer thing anywhere -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-17 Thread Donatello
Hi. For the zoom option, it's possible to have an control like openoffice in the status bar? http://static.blogo.it/ossblog/openoffice-30-beta-1/big_03writer.png Thanks Donatello -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-17 Thread mac_v
@Marcus Carlson: Could we *exclude the drop down arrows when inactive* ? ie. the drop down arrow is shown *only* for any location history having more than 2 items. Maybe the Up button could be squeezed-in ;) Also your latest icon-text shows this bug

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-17 Thread Marcus Carlson
mac_v, I've begin talking to upstream too see what they think about these changes before doing anything more. For the interested I've created jaunty packages [1] to play with. [1] https://launchpad.net/~0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu/+archive/ppa -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated,

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread Marcus Carlson
A package for the brave; https://launchpad.net/~0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu/+archive/ppa Note that this is just WIP and far from ready, it's just to get the feeling for how it could work, not to be installed on your primary desktop ;-) I could post some screenshots later. -- Nautilus file browser

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread Marcus Carlson
Screenshot of WIP. Planned is to combine refresh/stop to one button. ** Attachment added: nautilus-human.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29135180/nautilus-human.png -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread antistress
Marcus Carlson : how the zoom button is supposed to work ? You replace 2 buttons (zoom + and zoom -) with only one ? And will the user be able to change zoom factor with mouse wheel like tday (see my comment 83) ? As i said comment 51, i don't want to trade usability for a bit of space --

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread Marcus Carlson
antistress, the magnifier you see in the screenshot is not the zoom, it's the search function. Otherwise no changes. -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread antistress
Therefore you remove the possibilty for the user to adjust zoom factor with its mouse wheel. -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread antistress
Marcus Carlson : please send another mockup with text under icons to see how your idea behave in all configurations. Is the location bar still visible ? -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread Marcus Carlson
antistress wrote Therefore you remove the possibilty for the user to adjust zoom factor with its mouse wheel. Well, no, ctrl + mouse wheel will still be available. Location bar is still there if you press ctrl + L or via menu. To hidden? Please try the package if you'd like to test it out.

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread mac_v
@Marcus Carlson: Can the 2 zoom buttons + the use normal size button , be shifted to the status bar? But i dont see the point, its not frequently used anyway. But will make things easy for the users who do use it. -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread mac_v
Or even the menu bar, on the top right? If statusbar buttons is not a simple task -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread Marcus Carlson
Status update; I've now completed the combined stop/refresh button and new packages [1] should be available soon. Attached is screenshots of the different toolbar states. Comments? [1] https://launchpad.net/~0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu/+archive/ppa ** Attachment added: states.png

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread antistress
Marcus Carlson : 1°) at present time, using mouse whell forszooming in or out is rather intuitive since you only have to point zoom buttons and to use mouse wheel. No need for combination : keyboard (ctrl) + mouse (wheel) 2°) When i said please send another mockup with text under icons to see

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-16 Thread Marcus Carlson
David, whats your comment on the mouse wheel zooming comment by antistress? antistress, sorry, I forgot that screenshot. Attached now. ** Attachment added: icon-text.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29176640/icon-text.png -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Conkling
Some upstream action: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42834 (requesting the ability to customize the toolbar) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509660 (moving the Zoom and View As controls to the main toolbar, complete with a needs-work patch) ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-15 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: nautilus Status: Unknown = Confirmed -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-15 Thread Sebastien Bacher
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. --

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-15 Thread Phylum
Really useful! I'm hoping to see lots of changes to Natuilus on the next release of Ubuntu. The Back, forward, home and all the buttons across that toolbar, together with the labels, they're very huge, almost twice the size of the icons on firefox! -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-11 Thread Sami Pesonen
I also made one mockup more with text under the buttons. This is because it should follow the generic Gnome preference do you want to have text under the buttons or not. I think the default buttons with text are ok. I moved the Computer button to places (also can be found from Go menu in case

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-07 Thread NickSpencer
Is it worth linking this bug up with the one at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/382626 as even though they're not an exact match it seems evident that an overhaul of nautilus' interface would be welcome. -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-07-02 Thread Jake Tolbert
I've always felt, particularly on 15 and 14 laptop screens that Nautilus' icons were bigger than they were useful. How can we move this discussion beyond 'here's my preferences'? What's the best way to approach user testing so this paper cut gets resolved? -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-30 Thread Mikko Ohtamaa
@Psy[H[]: What would average users say after switching from windows, where there is no system slowdown on loading thumbnails, to ubuntu, where system becomes sluggish while loading them? Athlon 3000+, 1GB RAM; Core Duo 1,6, 1GB RAM - not top, but still not bad. But loading thumbnails in nautilus

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-30 Thread kikl
Loading thumbnails is only sluggish if you want a preview of the images. You can switch that off under edit preferences preview. Then you get to see the respective icons instantly. Even if it takes time to load the previews, you can browse the file manager, while the previews are loading, because

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-29 Thread Mikko Ohtamaa
@Psy[H[] : On 640x480 Nautilus window (assumed default file browser window size on modern setup) current Stop and Reload buttons take about 128 x 64 pixels space. That's 2.6% of window screen estate. Let's assume average Ubuntu user users Nautilus window 1 hours a day without pressing those

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-29 Thread Donatello
Hi everybody. I think it was a good idea to see this movie: http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/notes-from-a-gnome-3-mockup/ the modified nautilus might the colombo egg hehehehe -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-29 Thread Psy[H[]
Now we have a useless buttons and proposal to just remove them as in no man - no problem. Yes, stop button is useless now. So make it useful, give it a function and put it in as addable option. Make customizable panel with minimalistic default arrangement. That would be satisfactory in this

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-28 Thread moomex
2. What does the Stop button do? I'm sorry but I laughed when I read this sentence. Seriously, I've been using gnome for almost 8 years and I've never used the stop button. It should definitely be removed -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-28 Thread l-x-l
I'll add my .02 cents. I prefer the Dolphin breadcrumb style above all others that I've seen. -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-27 Thread Danielsan474
Refresh is a state of mind, and this action could be between zero and Inf+. We should take a decision, split this distribution of times in two parts, what people think about a long-wait and not. 3 sec? 4 sec? more? Local browsing, low number of files in a folder: 1. Joe open nautilus window and

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-27 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Here is a comparison between the size of the chrome (gray) and the area where you see the actual files (green) in the default nautilus window size on a new (guest) account. This does not take into account tabs or the bar that appears when you're about copy files to a writable cd. Solving this

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-27 Thread antistress
for those who want to remove zoom buttons, did you notice that you can change the zoom factor using the mouse wheel on them ? It's very practical. Besides, considering the zomm factor, Nautilus display more or less information in icon view : folder name or folder name + content or folder name +

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-26 Thread Psy[H[]
2 kikl 87 images may not be comparable with 500 or 1000. A quantity of photos on full sd card from photo camera. Why there is such a rush to make interface of nautilus *primitive*? Removing duplicated buttons (three on the right) and reducing size of zoom controls would be enough. -- Nautilus

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-26 Thread Ubeer
For long time browsing, we could eventually put a message box after n seconds to stop. This is already there, right? If I try to open a certain folder or samba share which takes a while, then a message box appears with: You can stop opening this folder by clicking cancel or something like that.

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-26 Thread Pieter v
I am not sure if this is relevant, however one Nautilus change I think would be very useful would be to have as default the opening of folders in a new tab when you double-click. Of course you would still have the option of just viewing the files in the current tab by clicking on the

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-26 Thread Lorenzo Delledonne
At this point, I think a brainstorm discussion for this issue would be far more suitable than a bug report... -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread Psy[H[]
A mockup by Daniele Medri is nice. My variant would be with path layed over launchpad buttons (with slashes and less spaces between). Also with home in the side panel, and with functional stop button. If it is to be used to stop loading thumbnails (in folders with a lot of pictures it is a pain)

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread Psy[H[]
Oh! another idea: two-lined arrows in launchpad buttons could be replaced with one-lined slashes. That would be more consistent. -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread Mikko Ohtamaa
About stop and refresh buttons: Refresh is not an action average desktop users does for his/her folders. Nautilus automatically detects changes in the folders. There is no need for refresh button, except in the corner cases like having remote file mount which do not behave correctly. If we really

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread Mikko Ohtamaa
About stop and refresh buttons: Refresh is not an action average desktop users does for his/her folders. Nautilus automatically detects changes in the folders. There is no need for refresh button, except in the corner cases like having remote file mount which do not behave correctly. If we really

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread Mikko Ohtamaa
About stop and refresh buttons: Refresh is not an action average desktop users does for his/her folders. Nautilus automatically detects changes in the folders. There is no need for refresh button, except in the corner cases like having remote file mount which do not behave correctly. If we really

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread Mikko Ohtamaa
@Psy[H]: Please see my comment above. Stop and refresh buttons are definitely *not* essential if the computer is behaving as it should. They are just for corner cases which are not often encountered. Thus, polluting the normal user workflow screen estate with these button should be discouraged.

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread Psy[H[]
Perhaps your attention for these two buttons is too captious. I doubt that opening a folder with a lot of images is such a rare event to be ignored. Loading thumbnails is not only slow, but also makes system sluggish. In this case a way to pause and resume this process must be at hand. And I

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread Danielsan474
mockup 2: - clicking on Home button (between right-left arrows) you should view the home/personal folder with a new view. System info, the xdg folders, and a link to classic view. On breadcrumbs: for stop and refresh buttons you could follow menu items. You don't need buttons... these buttons

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread Danielsan474
in my mockup2, in space free aree we could put personal device for rapid access... an usb disk-key, an mp3reader device, a photocamera attached to the computer. Is what a user should see in Computer but with rights to mount/unmount (polikykit could help here) -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread kikl
I just opened a folder with nautilus. The folder contained 87 images and two videos. The folder is located on a server connected to this computer over a standard wifi connection. The thumbnails of the folder were displayed practically instantly in the nautilus file manager. Therefore, I think this

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-25 Thread Brett Alton
I don't even like how Firefox has no labels on its buttons (e.g. Home, Back, etc.) while the rest of Gnome (a.k.a. Nauitlus) has labels (preferences set at System Preferences Appearance Interface Text Below Items... even if Firefox ignores this). The reason Firefox ignores these preferences

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-24 Thread SY
The launchpad-style breadcrumbs are certainly an improvement, but I personally feel that the more textual style for breadcrumbs (element element element) would be better. Not only does KDE use this style, but so does Windows Vista, and the majority of web sites that include breadcrumb

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-24 Thread Phantom
I'm against decreasing the size of buttons! If you're using mouse - it's fine. But not, when you're using a touchscreen! I'm currently on a 12,1 tablet (HP tx2500) and these buttons are usable, because my fingers easily fit on them. MS Windows are unusable because of the small elements. Same on

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-24 Thread kikl
clickable text elements for bread crumbs is a good idea. To me, it is not visually apparent that these text elements are actually clickable. Maybe just a minor problem... -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-24 Thread SY
This is the only downside I can think of to this style of breadcrumbs versus the current style. That being said, as long as a hover state is provided for the breadcrumb elements, I think it would be fairly apparent that the elements are clickable. Overall, I think it would be a win for usability

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-24 Thread Serious
imo too much streamlining (moving the stuff to one toolbar) could get bad for usability. 1) esp with the current implementation of the breadcrumb-toolbar it just looks like another bunch of buttuns (a bunch of buttons should first be eliminated) 2) Merging the stop/reload button is a good

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-24 Thread Psy[H[]
I think that Stop button should be used to stop loading thumbnails. I saw a bug or a brainstorm idea about this, I do not remember... but it would be better to give this button a needed function instead of just removing it. -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-24 Thread kikl
Well, I want to disagree. The bread crumbs are really great! A coherent look would be better. Give the bread crumbs a frame and the same color as the folder they represent. If you display the url-bar in text form, then why not display the url-bar as coherent bread crumbs? You display the same

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-24 Thread SY
ShawnJGoff makes a good point that standard buttons are really not the appropriate widget for the breadcrumbs. Not only are they an illogical choice, they also look very unattractive. Instead, it would be preferable if the breadcrumbs were made up of clickable text elements in the following

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-24 Thread Wouter Stomp
That style of breadcrumbs looks very nice and much better than it is now. -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. --

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-24 Thread Daniele Medri
a Mockup... - with the launchpad style bar - left panel items cutted or replaced - everything else could be placed inside options menu ** Attachment added: a mockup http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28301139/bozza.png -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-23 Thread Lorenzo Delledonne
In some web browsers, Reload and Stop actions shares the same button (set to reload when rendering is done, set to stop when the browser is still processing his task) -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-22 Thread antistress
Please consider not trading usability for a bit of space -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-22 Thread Pieter v
I agree that cut, copy, paste delete is what you do in a file browser a lot of the time, and so is very useful. I know a lot of you use the keyboard shortcuts, but usually when I am browsing I use the mouse and find that clicking on an option such as copy or paste is a much more efficient way of

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-22 Thread antistress
For the record, here is a Dolphin (KDE's file browser) screenshot ; Dolphin with Ubuntu theme (to focus on GUI's elements et not on theme) http://blog.rom1v.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dolphin-gnome.png (default nautilus : http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27797607/default_nautilus.png ) You may

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-22 Thread David Siegel
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Milestone: None = round-4 -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-22 Thread Jonathan Blackhall
#2: I agree with what none said. The stop button may be useful when you need to stop a nautilus action, but not when you're just sitting there browsing a folder. Ideally the button would be removed and a stop button could appear somewhere whenever Nautilus is working. #3: Despite criticism

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-21 Thread kikl
There is no location to display when you are doing a search? How about displaying the location/folder, in which you are searching? If you use the search field, the search should be conducted by default in the folder, which is open. In the current implementation, the search bar replaces the

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-21 Thread Lorenzo Delledonne
I definitely support Brian's idea to _group_ in a location bar all those buttons showing the current fs path. And, if possible, we should reduce their height sizing! -- Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386150 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-21 Thread Nicolò Chieffo
Well, we have lots of ideas, but currently it's missing a developer's clear opinion... Dear Mat Tomaszewski what's your opinion? Have you got another proposal or do you agree with one of the current ones? When will you start to show us how are you going to change the toolbars? Thanks -- Nautilus

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-21 Thread Dilomo
Btw I want to propose the idea of removing the navigation toolbar (with arrows) and leave only the one with radio buttons. I have seen it here but with my theme I tried to make the look of nautilus even simpler. ** Attachment added: One Toolbar (real theme)

[Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

2009-06-21 Thread shafin
I use nautilus exactly the way dilomo has posted it. 1. Navigation toolbar is removed, but I dont think this wil be a sane default. I sometimes need to alt-back or alt-forward, which would not be an intuitive thing for a new user 2.Laco's first mockup looks good, but I need the icon-tree-compact

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