GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 300733
Use File-Chooser widget for navigation
Last modified: 2005-05-13 18:01:33 UTC
The new(ish) file-chooser represents the file tree horizontally as a series of (ellipsized) buttons near the top of the window. This facilitates navigation immensely. Why not use the same widget in spatial nautilus windows, one could use it to replace the pop-up list currently used to switch folders. The current list, IMHO, is rather awkward to use. There is, IMHO, more than enough space for it in the status bar of any spatial nautilus window for this to be practical. Thanks, jj Other information:
Mockup is here: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~zctly50/pics/mockup-filechooser.png
Created attachment 45290 [details] Mockup of the filechooser widget in a nautilus window
This is great! It shouldn't bee that hard to make a patch for it either...
Also, should this proposal indeed be implemented, I think it would be useful to have the widget represent the status of all windows in the current tree. Consider the following: Folder "Home" is open Folder "Documents" is contained in "Home" but closed Folder "law" is contained in "Documents" and open. The widget in Folder "law" should assign a "pressed" state to the button for "Home". Clicking this button would toggle the "Home" folder window. Clicking the "Documents" button would make the "Documents" window popup. I suspect that this would be rather more difficult to implement, though.
Thanks for your bug report! This particular bug has already been files as bug 142436. I'd really like to hear what Alex and Dave think of this proposal. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142436 ***