Benedikt Meurer wrote: >Peter wrote: > > >>Right now, when one clicks the pathbar, well, nothing happens. Would it >>be feasible to make pathbar buttons have the same right-click menu as a >>folder in the main view would? I searched bugzilla and couldn't find >>anything, but is this in the works? Shall I submit a feature request? >> >> > >Remember, the path bar is a replacement for the (text-based) location >bar, not for the icon/detail view, and as such, its primary (and >probably its sole) purpose is navigation. The only action from the >context menu that may make sense here, is the "Open in new Window" action. > > Actually, this is why I sent the e-mail. I wanted to open a pathbar button in a new window, and I instinctively right-clicked it. Instinctive behavior is good, and I'd be interested to see how many others have tried it without thinking. Looking at the right-click context menu of a normal directory for me shows the following:
Open Open in New Window Add Folder to Shortcuts Copy File Cut File Delete File Paste Files into Folder Rename Open Terminal Here Properties You knew that, you put it there, but first let's observe the ones that I think we can all agree don't make sense: Cut Delete Rename These would be confusing, and I don't think anybody would really use them. Not to mention the hacks that I imagine would be required. Now let's observe how each one of the others could be used as compared to the main view. Open: Pointless, all we have to do is click, right? All we have to do is double-click the icon, same thing. Actually, this brings up an earnest question, why is this here in the main view? I'm sure there's a good reason; I just don't know what it is. Open in New Window: As you said this one is the most promising. There isn't another way to do this here AFAIK. Please correct. Add Folder to Shortcuts: We can drag them right now, why do we need this? Umm, same with Icon view. Not everyone knows you can drag it. Paste Files into Folder: This would be useful for the pathbar buttons the same way it is for the main view. Open Terminal Here: I understand that this is a custom action, and I also realize that there would be "environment" issues (not good wording, I think you know what I mean) putting custom actions into the pathbar. In fact, custom actions in the pathbar sounds like a bad idea. That said, if Open Terminal Here were in a pathbar context menu, I'd use it. Properties: I don't know if this is useful here. I don't use the Properties dialog very often anyway, so I'm not really sure. I can imagine that the permissions page could be an issue here, and I don't know if Gamin would be required to or could deal with it. So far the only thing I've wanted the pathbar context menus for is Open in New Window, and I'd be psyched to see it there. Well, that and Open Terminal in New Window, but that's a different can of worms. The other stuff, I dunno. Lot's of stuff I don't know. ^ is noob. I feel that some things would be useful there for the same reasons they're useful elsewhere. Anyway, I'll dig around some more so I can maybe approach understanding this. Now that I look at it, the code is equally impressive as the result. >greets, >Benedikt >_______________________________________________ >Thunar-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
