Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Biju Chacko wrote: > >>Benedikt Meurer wrote: >> >> >>>Jaap Karssenberg wrote: >>> >>> >>>>IMHO if you make it look like the gtk filechooser make sure it >>>>behaves consistent with it. For the user it is very confusing when >>>>things look the same but behave differently. Besides, if the gtk >>>>people found this behaviour intuitive enough why disagree with them? >>> >>>A valid point indeed. Botsie, what was the point to do otherwise, I >>>don't remember? ;-) >> >>I don't exactly remember either. My main crib with the Gtk chooser >>location bar is that it is very easy to get confused with where exactly >>you are in the directory tree. Compare: >> >>* Read the name of the last button >> >>With >> >>* Scan the buttons (and scroll if necessary) >> >>* Locate the button in the pressed state. >> >>* Read the label of that button. >> >>IAC, I don't think we should blindly assume that the GTK folks are >>somehow smarter than us. >> >>Consistency should be a criteria only when basic usability of all >>options has been established. To put it crudely, why screw something up >>just because the GTK guys have screwed it up already. > > > I agree with your point, but I guess I just don't find it confusing at > all. Usually there are very few buttons in the pressed state, and > pressed vs. non-pressed is very obvious to the eye (well, this is > theme-dependent, but I haven't seen a theme where this is ambiguous to > me). Also, if you navigate to a new directory (not using the buttons), > I believe the button bar makes sure the button for the current directory > is visible. If this isn't the case, then I think this would be a fine > improvement over GtkFileChooser (that is, fixing something the GTK guys > have screwed up already ^_^).
Actually, 'confusing' is not exactly the right word. Probably a better way to describe it would be to say that the GTK location bar presents too much information in such a way that it slightly obscures the most commonly needed information. The most common case "what is the $CWD?" should be be clearer or more obvious than it is in the GtkFileChooser. -- b _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
