On 02/11/2011 12:43, anthropornis wrote: > In Nautilus Elementary I had 3 buttons to switch views (icon, list, compact). > It > was on the same row as the location (text or breadcrumb) and was not cluttered > for me at all.
Strange. In my Nautilus Elementary, the buttons were on the status bar beside the zoom slider. But yes, I agree it wasn't cluttered. It looked pretty nice actually. > [...] > But what you suggest is actually interesting -- a customizable tool bar, just > like in LibreOffice, Firefox, and other mainstream applications. Oh my, I > could > potentially have 20 different buttons I could add to my own toolbar, or just > select a subset of, e.g., 3 of those, to put on my personalized tool bar. That > almost sounds .... like something that has been around for years. That was pretty obvious without having you mention it, but thanks anyway. > I understand that you do not see a problem with the current "solution." That > is > typically how problems begin, one user thinks his way should be the way for > everyone, and just excuse this penchant by throwing out that old bromide "oh, > you can't please everyone". That is true, but it's one thing to actually try, > and another to just say "do it my way". This is why I don't consistently > follow > this mailing list, because there is no shortage of that type of thinking > present > here. Other users? What other users? If I had it my way without considering other users, I would have a show hidden files/folders checkbox somewhere visible on the UI, not hidden in the menu. Try thinking about the greatest common denominator here, why don't you? > The thing is, if people other than yourself have things they can toggle > on/off, > or re-arrange, at will, it does not even have to affect you, or your own views > on clutter. We can ~all~ be closer to happy that way. User interface > precedents > do exist in this area. I never understand why that is so offensive to some > people. Yay, but the UX team wasn't so happy with that, last I checked. *cough* notify-osd *cough* (not that I dislike its default behaviour, by the way) > [...] > PS for the time being I am using GPRename instead of Purrr, but thanks for the > suggestion (that reply didn't make it to the list). Whoops. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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