Re: displaying uris in titlebar

[Damien Covey <djcovey softhome net>]

Dave Bordoley wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:23, Luca Ferretti wrote:
>  
>
> > Il ven, 2003-01-31 alle 16:58, Dave Bordoley ha scritto:
> >    
> >
> > > Right now for special uris like fonts:// and burn:// are used for the
> > > window titlebar for these folders. I see several potential problems with
> > > these:
> > >
> > > 1. At the most basic level they are untranslatable (to the best of my
> > > knowledge), hence these names become about as useless as "/" to
> > > non-english speakers.
> > >
> > > 2. They force the implementation detail of uris upon users. Ideally we
> > > would provide some sort of click and open solution to accessing these
> > > folders (maybe via start-here or the desktop it self).
> > >
> > >      
> > Other related troubles
> >
> > 3. You have to know that the uri exist
> >
> > 4. You have to know that the uri is "installed"
> >
> > Personally I like a start-here page more like an "all available 
> > resources" view, where you can find and manage all non-file stuff
> > available for/from nautilus ('Available Fonts' , 'Installed Packages' ,
> > 'Network Servers' , 'Desktop Preferences' , 'Applications'...).
> >
> >    
>
> Well here's my general idea when it comes to accessing theses uris
> through the ui. I've posted this in a few bugs, but can't hurt to post
> it here as well.
>
> 1. Access to the fonts:// folder should be provided via the control
> center font capplet. (open fonts folder...)
I agree here.

> 2. Network should be on the desktop by default. I recommend
> calling it "Network Places" seems more friendly than "Network Servers"
I figure that most "users" would not really know what a "Network Server" 
was, so I think this is a sensible naming proposition.  Also, on the 
desktop makes sense since that seems to be the place where people access 
most other resourced, floppy, home, cd etc.

> 3. A link to the "burn" directory could be added to the desktop
> whenever an empty cd-r is placed in the cd drive (I think this is how
> the mac works).
Not too sure what the benifits of this are!  Can you explain.

> 4. smb:// is accessible from the network:// uri, although its kind of
> crappy since smb:// is not a sub dir of network:// (which can be
> confusing).
>
> 5. Applications:// should be on the desktop by default too...
Why?  Dont most people access applications from either the menu panel or 
the gnome menu on another panel.  I would not like to see the desktop 
become cluttered, nor would I like it to be doubling up with things 
already easily accessible elsewhere.

> dave
>  
-Damien