Re: [Usability] Interacting with open folders, part 2.

[Daniel Borgmann <spark-mailinglists web de>]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 15:43 +0100, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
>In fact, I do have a comment, which I also posted here:
>
>http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129421

Putting the folder icon on the menubar as proposed in that bug report
sounds like a great solution to me for the general problem. This should
be much more discoverable than using the icon in the titlebar, and best
of all it would be possible right now to implement. It could be added to
other document-oriented applications with relative ease (unlike the
folder button in the statusbar). It should act like any other icon, so
you can move it around or right click on it to get a menu.

I do not think that we need add any additional kind of menu to act on
the current folder, because this is a very specialized case. In every
other case of document-oriented application, the File menu would always
act on the document being displayed. Folders are a very rare case where
a document contains other documents of the same type, that's why I think
the menu entries should act on the current folder if nothing else is
selected.

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Daniel Borgmann <daniel borgmann gmail com>