Re: Mega patch to make spatial nautilus rock!

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 20:54, Seth Nickell wrote:

> > 5) an optional pathbar displayed instead of the location button
> > 
> > This is a really neat addition as it also solves the problem of
> > displaying the full path in a spatial window as well as providing a
> > slick way to navigate upwards. 
> 
> 1) It puts Unix path garbage onto every window. We are trying to
> minimize the impact of our poorly laid out filesystem throughout GNOME.
> The file dialog gets around this by using a UI trick to provide a
> plausible explanation for re-rooting of the path bar. However, I don't
> see a way Nautilus can use this trick. It means that every window will
> have, e.g. "[/] [home] [username]" of noise in it (or potentially even,
> say, "[/] [afs] [ir.stanford.edu] [s] [n] [snickell]" or "[/] [usr]
> [local] [home] [seth]" etc).
> 

I have added an updated patch on bugzilla for this (it was really easy
to write!) at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145427


Also updated a screenshot of it showing the Home button (with obligatory
home stock icon) at:

http://www.jamiemcc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Nautilus_pathbar.png


jamie.