Comment 41 for bug 386150
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| kikl (kilian-klaiber) wrote Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly | #41 |
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Well, if you ask me, this proposal is actually my preferred design:
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File transfer on a desktop is a lot faster than over the internet. Most of the time, the stop and refresh buttons are not used, so I think they can be hidden in the menus. The up button isn't necessary, because the location bar gives you even more options instantly and it's always there. Icon view is something you usually only choose once and then stick with your choice. Therefore, it is right to remove it from the GUI. The interface takes up less space and is less complex, that's great!
I thought about the text below the icons. You could let short descriptions automatically appear, when the mouse is moved and held above the icon. Saves space and has no apparent disadvantages.
Tabbed-browsing is implemented the chrome way? It looks really nice. Lat but not least, there is a dedicated search field just like in firefox. I like it!
Some criticism:
The idea of showing buttons for copy/cut and paste is brilliant - credits to Chieffo! - because that's what you mainly do in the file browser. I think these three commands could be squeezed between the navigation buttons and the location bar. That way, they would be easily accessible.
A little off topic:
If you want to drag and drop, you need to show the tabs side by side and not on top of each other. O.K. now you can drag a file to another tab by dragging it to the part of the tab (the top of the tab) that is actually being displayed. But that doesn't appear intuitive to me. I think there should be an option for automatically arranging the tabs next to each other rather than on top of each other. Or shouldn't that be the default behavior of tabs in a file browser? Well, I usually use the context menu, but mum would never find out...
O.K that's more than enough! Cheers and good luck!