Re: Places and Shortcuts [was Re: "Connect to Server" dialog & new panel menu layout]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 20:48 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 12-01-2005 alle 15:17 +0100, Vincent Untz ha scritto:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > Since the 2.9.4 release, the panel has a brand new layout for the
> > menu bar. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161613 for
> > more informations.
> 
> BTW could we remove the Places menu from _spatial_ windows and move
> stuff in panel menu? 
> 
> Note that:
>       * a spatial window should perform actions only on its contents and
>         should be simply a view of a folder

I don't see why this is so? Many things are useful to have in each
window. For instance the places menu (even if its also in the panel).

>       * currently you can't directly open Templates or CD/DVD Creator
>         folders: you have to open a Nautilus window, then choose Places
>         -> $PLACE (or a browser window and choose Go -> $PLACE

Maybe it should be in the panel too.

>       * Home, Computer and Trash menu items in Places menu are now
>         redundant (use panel or desktop icons instead)

Why does this mean they can't be in the spatial window too. Having to
move all your windows to access the desktop icons is very inefficient.
Using the panel menu means moving the mouse further, and makes keyboard
access impossible, slowing you down.

There is nothing inherently wrong about this redundancy.

>       * We still miss a Fonts place to open fonts:// (it could be useful
>         to add personal fonts, maybe showing only files in $HOME/.fonts)

You can reach fonts:// from the font capplet. I don't really think its
an important enough location to take space in the other quick-open
locations.

> Moreover, Nautilus still use it's own Bookmarks. Why don't move to GTK+
> shortcuts? Is it reasonable? Of course you will lose some features, but
> IMHO it provides a better integration between apps.

Yes. We want to use the gtk+ bookmarks for both places and the nautilus
bookmarks. It didn't happen for this release though, since we're past
feature freeze.

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