On 6/30/05, Phrodo_00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm new over here and I really like the idea behind thunar. I've joined > to the list 'cause actually I don't think something like the Open Location > Dialog or the location bar is necesary, it would bloat the interface hard, > instead, what would be really cool is to do something like what the > open/save gtk dialog does when whe wanna write the name of a file, you know, > a floating focused textbox, only with absolute paths, a little bigger and > with a drop-down menu to show the possible places you wanna go (as when you > press tab in the console) when there are not more of ten or maybe few > options, this little dialog could be called by a key shorcut for fast access > and from the menu for easy access, maybe in some toolbar too if there's any. > anyway, I'm not an usability guru or something, I'm just a user that wants > to help a little this proyect. > -- >
We had this discussion, the outcome was that we liked the "Firefox search" approach and dealt with it this way. Having a seperated window for entering an uri is really consistent with what (the majority of the) users expect from a filemanager or a browser anyway. Cheers Emil _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
