Re: [PATCH] - New sidepanel plug-in for Gtk bookmarks and places

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jakub Steiner wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 15:21 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
>
>
> > > See my new blog for further info and screenshots:
> > > http://www.advogato.org/person/jamiemcc/diary.html?start=0
> >
> > I must say i don't understand this at all. Its basically the tree view
> > without any features, but with the bookmarks visible always and a couple
> > of button taking up a lot of space for functions that are easily
> > accessible in the menu already.
> >
> > What is the usecase for this?
>
>
> Hi Alex,
> The full tree view requires a lot of screen estate and is very clumsy
> for a side bar, requiring lots of scrolling in almost all my cases. The
> default locations + bookmarks proved to be very efficient for me in the
> file chooser.
>
> I would also suggest replacing the URI bar with the button structure as
> featured in the file dialog. 

Yup thats on my todo list (although I was planning to have a new toolbar 
positioned to the right of the sidebar rather than replace the location 
bar) :)

hopefully if the places sidebar issue is resolved quickly then I can get 
this in time for 2.12 (feature freeze is end of next week)

Unfortunately the pathbar widget in GTK (see pathbar.c) contains 
references to private gtk stuff (like GTKFilesystem) so I need to weed 
those out before plugging it into Nautilus. It would be great if a 
future gtk pathbar widget did not contain these references and thus was 
usable in nautilus without any modifications (I guess I should file a 
bug for that).

jamie.