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 demonstratethis. http://www.ethanzimmerman.com/images/nautilus_toolbars_style_1.pnghttp://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'. 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. Daniel
I'll throw my $0.02 in on this one. I really like how this one works, but what about this. Keep the "buttons" for the filesystem folder, but have either a "switch" button at the end of the button row or simply if the user clicks in the area after the buttons the bar will be switched instantly to a location entry. As soon as the user hits Enter/Return to enter the text or the location entry looses focus it should change back to the button bar.
I've never designed UIs for GNOME/LINUX and don't know much C, or else I'd do a mockup/help. Its just an idea though.
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