On 7/7/07, Benjamin Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi devs! > Thunar is very small but very fast and has a lot of features. > A nice feature would be that the sidebar shows the user a changable > number of locations which the user often uses. You can understand this > like a Top 10 but the user can adjust the number of the shown locations. > This feature would be additional to the current shown locations. The > user can activate it if he need it. > A feature like the last used locations wouldn't be useful because if you > visit one location for one time you would see it in the list but won't > need it in the future.
I really think this is a bad feature, though I can understand why, in the abstract, it seems handy. In general I think "smart" UIs like this are useless. If they are slow to update their list of favorites, then they're not really handy, it's more efficient for the user to manually tell the system it cares about a piece of data than waiting for the system to learn on it's own. However, if they're fast to update, then the become unpredictable, and prevent the user from being able to perform certain routine tasks with muscle memory - or worse, they do use muscle memory, and then one day the favorites list changes, and they perform a potentially damaging action by accident. Beyond that, the algorithm is just so tricky as to be useless. Thunar can't monitor "use" of a directory except through it's VFS. Since most accesses in that case will be through the file manager itself the most popular directories will be either home, or whatever directories the user has manually bookmarked. Or, perhaps, whatever the user has to drill down -through- the most often, leading to Thunar bookmarking not the most used directories, but the unused directory that's common between two points of interest, actually INCREASING the amount of work the user has to do to get where they wanna go. End rant. > > Many thanks that you think about my suggestion. > > Greetings > -- > Benjamin Weber > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 250 965 765 > Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://builtin.de > GPG-Key-ID: 0A2D66A5 => https://builtin.de/gpgkey > Key fingerprint = AF47 B9D4 31AA 32AC 96E1 E6C5 00B1 C5E3 0A2D 66A5 > > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > Thunar-dev@xfce.org > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > > > -- Erik "If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there." - Ken Thompson _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev