GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 94129
might be helpful to have a "go" menu in the menus
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:01:17 UTC
I think it might be helpful to have a global go menu in the panel. the rationale is that user shouldn't have associate an application with viewing a directory or location. For example, if a user wants to view an ftp site why should they have to open a nautilus window (why force the application association, this just makes the action harder to perform). Instead, I think it would be far more easier to have a go menu in the panel that included entries for some common locations (home, root folder) perhaps a network subfolder containing user defined network locations (maybe based on hadess' network folder idea) and a location bar. The location bar would open nautilus for folders, galeon for web pages etc.
I'd really prefer a more conrete description of what should be in the menu and some input from the rest of the usability team
This idea probably belongs in the same bucket as the task-based menus of #81545. In the shorter term, one idea might be be to allow items on our global "Open Recent" menu to be pinned there so that they never slipped off the bottom, essentially turning part of the menu into some sort of Favourites list. We could pre-load the Favourites part with some useful locations like Home, as you suggested. (This assumes that all the types of document you might want to pin there are currently added to the Open Recent menu, though, which they probably aren't.)
Pretty much a duplicate of task based menus *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81545 ***