Hi all :) First, I would like to thank everyone for the work. Thunar is my favorite file manager. As a consequence, I would be glad to help it. I had some ideas using Thunar which I thought they could be interesting. The aim of this mail is to present you these ideas. I think it could be interesting to talk a bit about them and share points of view :)
Also, I apologize if some were already made/studied but I'm new here, heh :) 1. Copy Manager : ----------------- So, the first idea is to have a kind of "copy manager", just like the download manager we have in Mozilla Firefox. I often copy or move several files. There are generally 2 ways of doing it : - I select all the files and copy/paste them. I have one window with a progress bar for all files I selected. In that case, we just have one window and only control on the whole process. If you want to cancel the copying process for one file, you can't. The good thing is that you have just one window :) - If I want to keep control on each copying process, I have to select one file after another. The annoying thing with this method is that I have one window for each file... The idea is to combine both systems : having one window with the list of files you're copying/moving with a progress status for each one AND for the whole process. Also, having some control possibilities such as stop, pause or continue... That would be great. If one file is more important than another, you can pause the others and continue them after. I don't know if it's possible (again, this is an idea :) ). If you don't see what I mean, have a look at Firefox's download manager, this will give you an idea :) 2. Location bar : ----------------- As I'm very interested in computing, I tested M$ Vista a few days ago (I like to discover new things, new features, new ideas..). I don't really like their new explorer which is, for me, very very complicated. Nevertheless, there is a great thing in this explorer : the location bar. It combines the advantage of "the button system" and the "text field system". I think Thunar could use a system like this one rather than the option in the menu bar. For those who haven't tested it (I understand them :D ), the bar is like a text field but you can click on words. For example you have : /home/user/projects/thunar And you can click on "home","user","projects" and "thunar". Clicking on it will drop you in the directory, just like the "button system". But if you click in the blank area of the text field (after thunar for example), you can type in what you want. You don"t have to constantely switch between both options. OK, that's all for now, let me know what you think about those ideas. I'm sorry for my english (Im french). I was better a few years ago but I miss practice. Cheers, François PS : If someone feels patient enough to guide me and help me, I can try to develop those ideas. I know algorithmcs and I'm used to develop in PHP, XML and Java. So with help and time, I think I could play a bit with C or C++ :) _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
