Re: [Usability] File Dialog Add/Remove Places Mockup

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:39:32PM +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> This discussion has been very interesting, but I wonder whether we're  
> overestimating the importance of Places for most people. The pane and  
> associated buttons are making the dialogs look much more complicated  
> than they would be otherwise.

I agree that the Places list and buttons make the dialog somewhat 
complicated and I could imagine it being confusing for some people 
(initially).

I use them all the time and would assume at least others who move 
between several projects/interests often do so , too.

A combobox might not slow down access that much, though. Anyone 
got statistics on that?

 
> Perhaps we could get away with a small button for Home, a small button  
> for Desktop (not shown if you have home as your desktop), a small  
> button for Computer, and a menubutton for the other places.
>                    _  _  _  __
>                   [H][D][C][Pv]_________________________
>                            |  Add ?some folder? to Menu |
>                            |  Remove from Menu          |
>                            |----------------------------|
>                            |  # foo                     |
>                            |  % bar                     |
>                            |  @ hum                     |
>                             """"""""""""""""""""""""""""
> 
> (Replace H, D, C, and P with cute icons, of course.:-)

Don't know about extra Home/Desktop/Computer buttons.
If the user keeps his files inside Home, his Places will 
be in there, too. And his home-dir would be part of the  
path-bar.

Computer could be another combobox, perhaps. Otherwise 
to be handled as part of Places like now.

I don't know hoe a 'Remove from Menu' item should work.
The Places combobox could have a 'Manage Places' item. 


I have working out how searching could fit in and better 
integration of keyboard based navigation on my todo-list.
 

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