GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 684117
Rework the UI to be more aligned with GNOME 3
Last modified: 2012-12-03 18:42:37 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).
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.