Suggestion for Breezy - Linz

Guido Heumann listguido at web.de
Wed May 11 19:59:40 UTC 2005


John DeCarlo schrieb:
> Currently when you go to browser mode, you see the tree structure on the
> left hand pane.  I think Lindsay is just asking to see CD-ROM and Floppy
> in there.  Right now there is just Home Folder and Filesystem.

One could answer "if it's not there, then your cdrom drive is empty",
since CD's are usually automounted and then appear in the tree and
places menu.
Perhaps this is in a way user-friendly and simple and maybe has to do
with the HIG (human interface guidelines). But I personally would also
prefer to see my CD drive listed, and getting "no disk in drive" errors
when clicking on it while empty. Must admit though that I'm a windows
convert and used to explorer-style filebrowsing.

(BTW, what I really hate about windows explorer (at work) since I'm
using Ubuntu at home is the bad mousewheel support there. You have to
click in a window before you can scroll with the wheel! That's soo
annoying...)

> [...]
> 
> One enhancement I would like to see is the ability to limit the size of
> columns.  In many folders, I have files with very long names, so when I
> browse there, the file name column takes up all the space.  I would
> prefer it not to autosize.
> 

Perhaps an interesting project regarding file browsing interfaces is
"Thunar". People are working on a new file manager for xfce, and they
start with focusing on a clean and pragmatic UI design. There might be
good ideas on http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/





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