DINH Viêt Hoà wrote:
> Erlend Davidson wrote :
>
>
>>>>> I'd quite like it to be easier to change between the Location Selector
>>>>> between the pathbar and toolbar styles - perhaps if you roll the
>>>>> mouse-wheel over it then it switches between being a pathbar and a
>>>>> toolbar. This is useful when you want to copy and paste the path of the
>>>>> directory you are in.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Well, Ctrl+L will always focus the location selector (pops up a dialog
>>>> in pathbar mode).
>>>>
>>> maybe in pathbar mode, it could switch temporarly to location selector
>>> so that it won't raise a dialog box.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hmm, that might confuse users - especially new ones - why does it do
>> this sometimes, and that other-times? I still think using the mouse-
>> wheel is a good idea - Xfce is the first desktop environment which (
>> out of the box) makes good use of the mouse-wheel (e.g. switching
>> workspacing, rolling-up windows). Again though there is a risk of
>> confusing users (i.e. why did the location selector just change and
>> how do I get it back?)
>>
>
> The problem with mouse scroll wheel is that it is not explicit on the
> interface.
>
> The temporary switch to an entry would get back to pathbar by pressed
> ESC or losing focus on it.
> I am proposing that because with the pathbar style, the main usage of
> a entry for the path would be entering a path by hand and switching
> back to pathbar. I don't know much usage for it.
> Maybe a copy-paste of the current folder but that usage is reduced to
> my opinion (that would be workarounded by an option in the right-click
> contextual menu of the pathbar).
>
I really like that idea - right-clicking on the pathbar and click "Copy
directory location to clipboard". Even better (and I don't know if this
is possible) if the menuitems that custom actions add to the standard
right-click menu would also appear when you right-click menus on the
path bar (which taking "Open terminal here" as an example does make
sense) then "copy directory location to clipboard" could be implemented
as an custom action.
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