On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 10:57 +0100, Marcus Carlson wrote: > > As I've not seen the code yet I do believe that the toolbar editor will > have less "control" over the widgets now that the places widget is > outside of the normal toolbar and inside the file viewer instead, making > the simplifications by DanRabbit (and others) impossible without > touching the code. We could of course add a places widget to the toolbar > as well and have a setting to show the other places widget inside the > file viewer or not, but that isn't ideal. > > That's one thing I could find a bit negative about the splitview thing...
Yeah, this sort of comes automatically with supporting a split view feature. (Since we need to show two location bars then) I'm don't really think its a great idea to have the location on the normal toolbar though. It really limits the length of the rest of the location bar (or forces you to have a wide window) to get a reasonable view of long filenames. (Or you could have a really really short toolbar, but thats also limiting in other aspects.) The simplified UIs shown excel in having a clean looking user interface that "looks" simple. However, I question if they are really simple to use. The lack of menus and (to a lesser extent) many of the toolbar items means the are less discoverable and thus harder to use for a new user. Its interesting to not that OSX doesn't have the path bar in the toolbar, but they put the pathbar *below* the directory view: http://www.pranadharma.com/images/osx_finder_column_view.png Except the placement below the view, this is kinda simlar to the split view nautilus UI, with a bunch of items removed from the toolbar and the menu moved from the window to a global menu. -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
