Re: Simplified Nautilus (with less chrome)

[Marcus Carlson <nautilus mejlamej nu>]

Alexander Larsson skrev:
> Wrt the toolbar, all we've done is move two widgets (view selector and
> zoom). Additionally the "extra" toolbar has now been removed and the
> location/pathbar has been made more of a "normal" non-toolbar item.
>
> Where do you see the increase in complexity? Obviously there is a bit
> less white space now, as the main toolbar has more stuff, but at the
> same time this has lead to more space for the file view. Also, the
> toolbar is longer now, but this is not a problem if the window is wide.
> For a less wide window this means the zoom and view selector are hidden
> (since they have less priority), but these are not that commonly used
> widgets and loosing them in favour of more important widgetry when space
> is tight seems like the right approach.
>
> Of course, this doesn't mean I think this is the ideal layout of the
> toolbar (witness the simplification efforts for instance, and the wish
> for a toolbar editor, clearly there are at least some good ideas out
> there). However, I contend that it is somehow much more complex than the
> previous default. We could start discussing a better layout at any time,
> but codewise it would be best to finish the toolbar editor work first
> before implementing a change of default.
>
>   
As I've not seen the code yet I do believe that the toolbar editor will 
have less "control" over the widgets now that the places widget is 
outside of the normal toolbar and inside the file viewer instead, making 
the simplifications by DanRabbit (and others) impossible without 
touching the code. We could of course add a places widget to the toolbar 
as well and have a setting to show the other places widget inside the 
file viewer or not, but that isn't ideal.

That's one thing I could find a bit negative about the splitview thing...

Best regards,
Marcus