GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 82047
Nautilus should display full path in the window border
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
from http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/proposals/nautilus.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * The titlebar needs to be a bit more descriptive than listing a simple one word directory name PROPOSED SOLUTION: Use a full path rather than just the current directory. A lot of people have directories with the same name in different paths, this will clear up any confusion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is that when users (aka me) choose not to use the location bar, nautilus provides absolutely no spatial information to the user. This is bad.... marking severity as trivial, since imho this is a little bit bigger usability problem than a pure enhancement
If Nautilus is going to be a graphical shell and not just another file manager, then this is a bad idea. (File managers suck, btw. A workplace shell would rule! ;-) A better solution is a window manager that supports something like this: http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~merchan/path-menu.png For a more complete description, see here: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/HumanInterfaceToolbox/WindowManager/ProgWMacOS8.5WindowMgr/WindowMgr.6.html
You make a decent point, but considering that what you propose would proabably involve integrating metacity or sawfish (probably metacity) alot deeper into gnome and nautilus, i think that including the full path is a good short term solution. do you agree that much???
No. It doesn't need 'deeper integration', it needs a protocol that any client can use to provide the same function. One is also needed for proxy icons. (Hit Previous on the Apple page to see that.) It should, for example, be possible for a text editor to provide similar data to a window manager to support DnD saving by proxy icon and opening the parent folder of the document with the path menu. I already sent email to wm-spec-list earlier this month: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2002-May/msg00021.html I've not received any replies.
I don't think displaying the full path is a good idea. Just on an immediate/practical level it makes the names useless in the window list.