Re: [Usability] Efficient navigation in nautilus

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:50:33PM +0200, Christian Schneider wrote:
> Thorsten Wilms wrote:

> I also checked the middle click. But it did not work. What version of 
> gnome do you use?
> My version is 2.6.0 from Fedora Core 2.

2.6.1, Gentoo

> >There's no tab completion, because tab is used for widget focus navigation.
> >The only possibilty to help the user when there are several possible 
> >completions I can think of, is showing a list below the inputfield, just 
> >like Epiphany does. But for not making the buttons inaccessible, it should 
> >not be a dropdown. Instead there could always be about 3 lines space below 
> >the path input.
> > 
> >
> Yes thatīs why I proposed to implement the location input separate and 
> not in a dialog.

Not in a dialog so that tab can be used for completion?
That's a hack and allowing tab completion would still hurt consistency.


> I also thought about the possibility to integrate the display of 
> matching entries beside the input field.
> This would probably be easier to implement than my suggestion but I 
> think it does not match the spatial idea very well. In any way it would 
> be great if these entries were also clickable so you can type but you 
> donīt have to.

Sure. Same behaviour as with Epiphany.


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Thorsten Wilms