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Bug 684117 - Rework the UI to be more aligned with GNOME 3
Rework the UI to be more aligned with GNOME 3
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: file-roller
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
file-roller-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-09-15 21:12 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2012-12-03 18:42 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-09-15 21:12:29 UTC
Now that file-roller has an app menu, I would suggest reworking the remaining menus (with the ultimate goal of making them all unnecessary).

Here are some ideas for starters:

- Archive: kill. Its items are all present in the appmenu, except "Test integrity" which should be moved onto the toolbar into a "gear" (advanced) menubutton.
- Edit: remove "add files" (already in the toolbar). "Find..." could become a permanent live searchbar or be triggered when the user types directly in the listview. "Password" should go into the "gear" menubutton. Copy/paste/select/unselect could possibly go into that menubutton too, but I'm not sure, most of them are 1) accessible through keyboard shortcuts 2) accessible with a contextual menu. If we could manage that, then the Edit menu could be killed entirely.

- View: removing the toolbar/statusbar pretty much makes no sense. Not sure what to do about the folder treeview sidepane, do people actually use this? It's partially redundant with a pathbar (see next paragraph). "Refresh": shouldn't the archive refresh automatically (or offer to do so) when it detects an external file change, like Gedit does? View as files/view as folder can be moved to the appmenu or made a set of two pushbuttons like in nautilus. Then we can kill the View menu.

- Help: kill. It's already in the appmenu.

For the secondary toolbar: make it a pathbar like nautilus, remove the "home" button (replaced by the pathbar's root item, which is the archive).
Comment 1 Paolo Bacchilega 2012-12-03 18:42:37 UTC
The menubar has been removed now.  

For the secondary toolbar there is already an enhancement request that asks to use the pathbar, I'm waiting for gtk+ to make the pathbar widget public.