GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 158802
"Always open in browser windows" checkbox is difficult to find
Last modified: 2008-08-31 20:51:48 UTC
1. Open Nautilus file manager window 2. Go: Edit -> Preferences -> Behavior 3. The setting "Always open in browser windows" is too close to options "Single click to activate items" and "Double click to activate items". On some Gnome themes it may look like a member of the radio buttons group. I know this because I overlooked it two times myself, a friend of mine overlooked it one time. I found it only when very explicitly told where to look for it. The Gnome theme I use is "Mist". It's controls are lower contrast than the Default Gnome theme. Other Gnome themes (installed on my computer) that may have this problem are: Human, CleanIce-Debian, DebianRed, GrandCanyon (definately, since the unselected radio button and unchecked checkbox look completely the same), Industrial, LightHouseBlue.
any suggestion to change that?
Hmm... I see two options: option 1: add empty space between the singleclick/doubleclick radio button group and the "always open in browser windows" checkbox. option 2: create a separate group title for the "always open in browser windows" checkbox. It could be called "Browser Windows". (By group title I mean these bold names: "Behavior", "Executable text files", "Trash").
Cc'ing usability maint and noting that this is still a problem in 2.11.
Yeah, I would just leave a bit of a gap between the radio buttons and the checkbox. (Probably 12 or 24 pixels as per the HIG, whichever looks better.)
My preferred way of fixing this would be by replacing the checkbox with a menu item, as described in bug 170546.
> Yeah, I would just leave a bit of a gap between the radio buttons and the checkbox. Done: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus?view=revision&revision=14548 Closing.