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Easy access to change the file view and zoom level from the toolbar
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Severity:
enhancement

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Description Yousuf 'Jay' Philips 2015-02-24 02:25:22 CET
Created attachment 5990 
toolbar mockup

As the toolbar is largely empty and just filled with a large address field, it would be nice to add useful features to it to provide easy access.

View Combobox - For a mouse user, they would need to go into the menubar in order to change this.

Zoom Buttons - For a mouse user in detailed list with in a folder which has enough files/folders in it that the scrollbar appears, they would need to go into the menubar to change this. A third normal size button could also be useful, but i left it out as it isnt as crucial.

Refresh Button - It looked better outside of the address field for the mockup as it gives more space between the address field and the separator.
Comment 1 Harald Judt editbugs 2015-04-17 17:16:37 CEST
The large address field is good because it shows information considered most important. Adding more and more icons to the toolbar will only clutter up the interface. There are other ways of accessing these features.
Comment 2 Yousuf 'Jay' Philips 2015-04-18 12:36:51 CEST
(In reply to Harald Judt from comment #1)
> The large address field is good because it shows information considered most
> important.

The large address field is a waste of space when seen on any screen made in the last ~10 years. On my 7 year old laptop at 1280x768, the address field takes up 89% of the screen width. Even going into a 80 character length folder only took up ~50% of the address field. Imagine how little space would be taken up by a user who is at 1080p.

> Adding more and more icons to the toolbar will only clutter up
> the interface. There are other ways of accessing these features.

The toolbar has 4 buttons in it and adding a few more buttons will not clutter it up. The point of a toolbar is to have easy access to commonly useful features without requiring a user to go into the menus.
Comment 3 Harald Judt editbugs 2015-04-18 12:57:08 CEST
(In reply to Jay from comment #2)
> (In reply to Harald Judt from comment #1)
> > The large address field is good because it shows information considered most
> > important.
> 
> The large address field is a waste of space when seen on any screen made in
> the last ~10 years. On my 7 year old laptop at 1280x768, the address field
> takes up 89% of the screen width. Even going into a 80 character length
> folder only took up ~50% of the address field. Imagine how little space
> would be taken up by a user who is at 1080p.

Only if you use full-screen windows. As far as I am concerned, I don't but use multiple windows.

> > Adding more and more icons to the toolbar will only clutter up
> > the interface. There are other ways of accessing these features.
> 
> The toolbar has 4 buttons in it and adding a few more buttons will not
> clutter it up. The point of a toolbar is to have easy access to commonly
> useful features without requiring a user to go into the menus.

In recent years, more and more toolbar icons have been removed to keep the interface simple.

Anyway, I closed this because we had 400+ open bug reports that no one wants to read anymore, so closing as many as possible seemed like a good idea. Feel free to reopen or to discuss elsewhere. If people decide it should be done this way, someone still needs to provide patches.
Comment 4 Yousuf 'Jay' Philips 2020-03-01 01:53:35 CET
@alex, @theo: your thoughts about this?
Comment 5 alexxcons editbugs 2020-03-02 19:21:57 CET
For some users "zoom", "refresh" and "view type" are important enough to have them in the toolbar.
Other users may have other preferences .. I actually dont want to make such tradeoffs.

Like Harald Judt, I use smaller thunar windows within a lower resolution .. so I actually like the available space and would have trouble with a shorter path in my toolbar :)

IMO if at all, adding additionall toolbar-icons should be optional and configurable.
Comment 6 Yousuf 'Jay' Philips 2020-03-16 23:58:49 CET
Refresh is already implemented in toolbar style and partially in pathbar style (you click the edit icon which turns the pathbar style to toolbar style temporarily).
Comment 7 alexxcons editbugs 2020-03-17 00:25:44 CET
(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #6)
> Refresh is already implemented in toolbar style and partially in pathbar
> style (you click the edit icon which turns the pathbar style to toolbar
> style temporarily).
Since it is already there, I would be ok with having "refresh" out of the gtkentry, so that it is available for pathbar and toolbar style.
Comment 8 Andre Miranda editbugs 2020-05-26 04:45:35 CEST
I would rather remove refresh button from toolbar than adding more buttons.

Bug #11589

Reported by:
Yousuf 'Jay' Philips
Reported on: 2015-02-24
Last modified on: 2020-05-26

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Xfce Bug Triage
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toolbar mockup (11.09 KB, image/png)
2015-02-24 02:25 CET , Yousuf 'Jay' Philips
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