2007/2/5, "François K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all :) > > First, I would like to thank everyone for the work. Thunar is my > favorite file manager. As a consequence, I would be glad to help it. > I had some ideas using Thunar which I thought they could be interesting. > The aim of this mail is to present you these ideas. > I think it could be interesting to talk a bit about them and share > points of view :) > > Also, I apologize if some were already made/studied but I'm new here, heh :) > > > 1. Copy Manager : > ----------------- > [ snipped the idea number 1 full text]
I won't comment on this one since my use cases never deal with copying files. I hardly copy them... > > > 2. Location bar : > ----------------- > > As I'm very interested in computing, I tested M$ Vista a few days ago (I > like to discover new things, new features, new ideas..). > I don't really like their new explorer which is, for me, very very > complicated. Nevertheless, there is a great thing in this explorer : the > location bar. > It combines the advantage of "the button system" and the "text field > system". I think Thunar could use a system like this one rather than the > option in the menu bar. > For those who haven't tested it (I understand them :D ), the bar is like > a text field but you can click on words. For example you have : > /home/user/projects/thunar > And you can click on "home","user","projects" and "thunar". Clicking on > it will drop you in the directory, just like the "button system". > But if you click in the blank area of the text field (after thunar for > example), you can type in what you want. You don"t have to constantely > switch between both options. > I don't know if you're aware of the Ctrl+l key shortcut, it displays a go-to dialog where you can type locations there. Combined with the buton bar it is a very powerful file management interface. I do have some opinions on how to improve this dialog, though, and since we are in the subject I felt like sharing them: I don't know if you guys think the same but I believe the Ctrl+l shortcut would be much more useful it it behaved much like a cd command on the terminal. I mean, the command could open its window with an empty text entry, and treat relative paths in it. That way, if I wanted to go to "subdir" from here, all I had to type was ^l subdir <CR>. I understand the default behavior on "Launch with current dir on entry and relative paths are always related to home" is useful, but we already have (and thunar understands) the ~/ path shortcut to use, and thunar already handles the "~" shortcut to open the same window with the ~/ path pre-select (by the way, it would be nice to add the bar to it when the user press ~, so we can start typing children from Home there) Well, I am in haste right now, so I'll sum it up as a "feature-request-wannabe" down here: Intended behaviors I'd like to see in thunar shortcuts to the Open Location (just a proposal) 1) user types '/', it opens Open Location dialog with / in it and the cursor right after it. (already done) 2) user types '~', it opens Open Location dialog with ~/ in it, and cursor right after it. (almost there, just needs the added / to it) 3) user types ^l, it opens Open Location dialog empty, paths are treated the same way they would be from the shell. That is: ~/ uses home, / uses root (they both work) and relative paths are relative to the current directory in thunars view. Why do I think the current ^l shortcut is bad: because when you type Ctrl+l you (pretty much) always need to give it a ArrowLeft or something like that, to let go the pre-defined selection and wrting relative paths. And the relative paths get too big to be readable while you write it. And I just think that relative paths in an Open Location window would be more intuitive if they were relative to the place I am right now :) By the way, Thunar is a great piece of software, I never got used with a file manager (and I tried too many of them, but I'm a terminal kind of guy) but you sure got me converted. You guys rule. Regards, Alexandre Moreira. > > OK, that's all for now, let me know what you think about those ideas. > I'm sorry for my english (Im french). I was better a few years ago but I > miss practice. > > > Cheers, > > François > > PS : If someone feels patient enough to guide me and help me, I can try > to develop those ideas. I know algorithmcs and I'm used to develop in > PHP, XML and Java. So with help and time, I think I could play a bit > with C or C++ :) > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > Thunar-dev@xfce.org > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
