Re: UI Mockup Round 2

[Daniel Brodie <daniel brodienet com>]

> And now the biggie... The location bar. It's obvious people like the
> text entry version. And people also like the path buttons version. So
> here is my idea (Based on Eugenia's idea of using a customized toolbar
> like in Epiphany). We should have 3 toolbars to choose from the "Back,
> Forward, Up, ..." toolbar, the location toolbar (text entry version),
> and the path buttons toolbar. The user can then choose what combination
> of the 3 possible toolbars he wants. I have 2 mockups to demonstrate
> this. 
> http://www.ethanzimmerman.com/images/nautilus_toolbars_style_1.png
> http://www.ethanzimmerman.com/images/nautilus_toolbars_style_2.png
> What do you guys think of this? Oh and I didn't change the way the left
> pane looks partially because there's not much of a visual change in this
> new version, but mostly because I'm lazy :-)

I would like to propose a different appraoch:
http://brodienet.com/~daniel/nautilus_toolbars_newstyle.png

That is a GtkEntryCompletion. It is always in the end of the pathbar,
and lets people always, easily, type in relative paths. A person can
also go into very nested folders very quickly just by typing and using
the auto-complete. It is also easy to go up by typing in ../../
some_folder_name and then you can continue to type in the path that you
want. It also works great for hidden file/folders. Last, its simple
enough that a beginner should understand how to use this 'hybrid'.

Now, regarding the up command, GtkEntryCompletion have support for
actions. While I don't think it really fits in (since you have to start
typing a folder name to go up?) I just thought I would pop it on the
screenshot, since there maybe some good actions that an be added to it
that I haven't thought of.

The only case I can think of where a complete text entry would be
better, is if you have similar paths you want to edit (say /mnt/win1/
file to /mnt/win2/file). Though, this could be done with the ctrl+l
dialog.

Daniel