Improving File Management Preferences dialog
- From: Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>
- To: Nautilus <nautilus-list gnome org>
- Subject: Improving File Management Preferences dialog
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 16:15:33 +0200
Description of problem
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The "File Management Preferences" dialog has some issues
1. It still use the (deprecated) GtkOptionMenu widget
2. The "Icon Captions" tab don't follow the HIG specs
* "Label the drop-down list with a text label above it or
to its left"
* explanatory text in dialog
3. Global options are mixed with specific view options, for example
list view options appears in both "Views" and "List Columns"
tabs
So I picked up my glade and I tried to build up something.
Actual results
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Here a detailed list of changes (items starting for '>' means just for
fun, not implementable actually :-)
General
* dialog spacings
* renamed tabs labels
Displaying
* removed hbox11 (containing default_view_optionmenu): HIG said
"Do not use drop-down lists with fewer than three items".
* s/sort_order_optionmenu/sort_order_combobox
* note that sort_order_optionmenu use bad capitalization
* add a "Manually" sorting option in sort_order_combobox
* removed the "Tree View Defaults": now we are spatial, we can
keep it simply as a GConf key, don't expose in UI
* moved list and icon view specific controls in appropriate tab
* use radio controls to choose default view
* > add a detailed (MacOSX Finder style) selection on showed
volumes on Desktop [1]
Management
* add a couple of radio (spatial_radiobutton and
browser_radiobutton) to connect to
/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser GConf key
* Use the "Behavior" section to set spatial/browser UI. Use the
"Items Activation" to set click policy.
* delete the "Executable Text Files" section and pack it as
dropdown list (scripts_combobox) in "Item Activation" section
Icon View
* s/iconview_zoom_optionmenu/iconview_zoom_combobox
* add labels (not so good but HIG compliant) for
captions_*_optionmenu and convert them to ComboBox
List View
* s/listview_zoom_optionmenu/listview_zoom_combobox
* > add a checkbox to enable Classic Finder style tree view [2]
Preview
* s/optionmenu/combobox
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For glade file see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143444
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[1] we have already the /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf
key, but it's a TRUE/FALSE for ALL volumes (hard, removable, server).
[2] if and when someone will implement it, IMHO we don't need to add it
as a third view.
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