GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 143444
Improving File Management Preferences dialog
Last modified: 2008-09-06 10:59:39 UTC
Description of problem ############################ The "File Management Preferences" dialog has some issues * It still use the (deprecated) GtkOptionMenu widget * The "Icon Captions" tab don't follow the HIG specs * "Label the drop-down list with a text label above it or to its left" * explanatory text in dialog * Global options are mixed with specific view options, for example list view options appears in both "Views" and "List Columns" tabs So I picked up my glade and I tried to build up something. Actual results ############################ Here a detailed list of changes (items starting for '>' means just for fun, not implementable actually :-) General * dialog spacings * renamed tabs labels Displaying * removed hbox11 (containing default_view_optionmenu): HIG said "Do not use drop-down lists with fewer than three items". * s/sort_order_optionmenu/sort_order_combobox * note that sort_order_optionmenu use bad capitalization * add a "Manually" sorting option in sort_order_combobox * removed the "Tree View Defaults": now we are spatial, we can keep it simply as a GConf key, don't expose in UI * moved list and icon view specific controls in appropriate tab * use radio controls to choose default view * > add a detailed (MacOSX Finder style) selection on showed volumes on Desktop [1] Management * add a couple of radio (spatial_radiobutton and browser_radiobutton) to connect to /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser GConf key * Use the "Behavior" section to set spatial/browser UI. Use the "Items Activation" to set click policy. * delete the "Executable Text Files" section and pack it as dropdown list (scripts_combobox) in "Item Activation" section Icon View * s/iconview_zoom_optionmenu/iconview_zoom_combobox * add labels (not so good but HIG compliant) for captions_*_optionmenu and convert them to ComboBox List View * s/listview_zoom_optionmenu/listview_zoom_combobox Preview * s/optionmenu/combobox [1] we have already the /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf key, but it's a TRUE/FALSE for ALL volumes (hard, removable, server). [2] if and when someone will implement it, IMHO we don't need to add it as a third view.
Created attachment 28201 [details] The glade file for the new proposed UI
Luca, I'm closing this bug as OBSOLETE. If some of these points are still valid for current Nautilus 2.23.x, please file a separate bug for each, thanks.