Re: UI Mockup Round 2

[Andre Schaefer <schaefer is informatik uni-duisburg de>]

Daniel Brodie wrote:
> > And now the biggie... The location bar. It's obvious people like the
> > text entry version. And people also like the path buttons version. So
> > here is my idea (Based on Eugenia's idea of using a customized toolbar
> > like in Epiphany). We should have 3 toolbars to choose from the "Back,
> > Forward, Up, ..." toolbar, the location toolbar (text entry version),
> > and the path buttons toolbar. The user can then choose what combination
> > of the 3 possible toolbars he wants. I have 2 mockups to demonstrate
> > this. 
> > http://www.ethanzimmerman.com/images/nautilus_toolbars_style_1.png
> > http://www.ethanzimmerman.com/images/nautilus_toolbars_style_2.png
> > What do you guys think of this? Oh and I didn't change the way the left
> > pane looks partially because there's not much of a visual change in this
> > new version, but mostly because I'm lazy :-)
>
>
> I would like to propose a different appraoch:
> http://brodienet.com/~daniel/nautilus_toolbars_newstyle.png
>
> That is a GtkEntryCompletion. It is always in the end of the pathbar,
> and lets people always, easily, type in relative paths. A person can
> also go into very nested folders very quickly just by typing and using
> the auto-complete. It is also easy to go up by typing in ../../
> some_folder_name and then you can continue to type in the path that you
> want. It also works great for hidden file/folders. Last, its simple
> enough that a beginner should understand how to use this 'hybrid'.

That is very useful - it is exactly how I use the RoX filer. When I hit 
'/' the path appears (that's a diffenrence, in you mock it would be 
visible right away) and while i type the display reflects my typing. A 
RAPID mode of navigation, I must say.

> Now, regarding the up command, GtkEntryCompletion have support for
> actions. While I don't think it really fits in (since you have to start
> typing a folder name to go up?) I just thought I would pop it on the
> screenshot, since there maybe some good actions that an be added to it
> that I haven't thought of.
>
> The only case I can think of where a complete text entry would be
> better, is if you have similar paths you want to edit (say /mnt/win1/
> file to /mnt/win2/file). Though, this could be done with the ctrl+l
> dialog.

But the CTRL+L dialog should then have the current path in it, at least.

* André