Re: [Usability] Suggestion for the actual UI of GTK+'s New FileSelector

[Paul Thompson <captbunzo squirrelmail org>]

Steven Garrity wrote:
> The button-clickable path navigation is VERY interesting. This is really 
> powerful. However, it's something that should maybe be a GTK widget - so 
> it could be used elsewhere. Also, careful thought would have to go into 
> dealing with really long paths.

I agree completely about the clickable paths being a good thing. The 
button look of these in these:

  http://www.gnomepro.com/gtk-file-sel2.png

...mockups bothered me a bit. An idea that occurred to me was to use 
something that looked like links on a webpage for this. Something like:

  / tigert / My Documents / Photographs

...where the initial slash, and than each of the three directories was 
something like an underlined link.

I don't know, perhaps this is a bad idea - I just wanted to toss it out 
there. Also, I wanted to voice my opinion about how great "Suggestion 
X4" in the above mockup looks. I think the usability of it would be great.

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