On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 20:59 +0300, Alexey Rusakov wrote: > Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > With the file dialog issues coming up again and again, I suddenly > > had this idea to combine a textfield with path-buttons: > > > > http://xs67.xs.to/pics/06066/text-path_a_b.png > > > > The file list below it should be filtered for the string as it's > > entered, or browser style autocompletion could be shown attached > > below the field. > > > > Entering / after the name of an existing dir would turn that part > > of the path into a button. "../" (maybe even "cd ../") could also > > work.
Interesting [...] > Very interesting, I like the idea. Concerning further steps, I'd really > appreciate if such a field had an autocompletion (with a list of possible > choices) in some form; I miss it very much in a current address entry. Of > the two versions presented, I prefer the upper one. The lower one is very like an experimental feature that was prototyped for the open look ui some 10 years ago or more; initial usability tests were mentioned by Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano in "Designing Visual Interfaces" -- such a change would need to be pervasive to feel part of Gnome, I think. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
