Re: [PATCH] Add Pathbar to Nautilus Browser

[Michele Cella <michele cella gmail com>]

Vincent Noel wrote:
> > I agree, also Jamie's one is coherent to what the Filechooser does.
>
> I think the rationale here was that you were supposed to first click
> on a bookmark on the side pane, and *then* use the pathbar. The
> bookmark bar would then act like a re-rooting tool for the path bar.
> If you put the path bar above the side pane, this hierarchical
> relationship is lost or inverted (but the path bar is still useful, of
> course...).

IMHO you are right, also having the pathbar besides the sidebar enforces 
the relation between the actual folder you are on and its contents.
Also I find the zoom control and the view as widgets distracting.

> FWIW, path finder put the path bar on the right of the side pane
> (http://www.cocoatech.com/images/browser.jpg).

Never used path finder, anyway this drop stack thing seems incredibly 
useful (at least to me)!

> > Anyway, don't you think the toolbar is redundant when we are using a
> > pathbar?
>
>
> This is bug 309810 that I filed this morning :
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309810

Sorry haven't seen this. ;-)

> Cheers
> Vincent

Ciao
Michele