10Jan Sidebar Categories in Nautilus
After Apple released the categorized sidebar in finder, GNOME developers thought that it would look nice to have something similar in nautilus. There’s already work being done, you can follow it in the bug page, but, in the end, we’ll probably get something like this:
January 11th, 2009 at 10:40 am
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January 13th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I absolutely, 100% support splitting the list into logical groups. It’s an excellent idea.
However, why does it have to be done with indenting? The sidebar will always be horribly space constrained and by indenting you can see you’ve lost 2 characters from the longer items. That’s quite a lot when you could only see about 10 or 11 characters in the first place.
I quickly whipped something up in GIMP which I think makes much more sense in this kind of context. The rationale is that the places sidebar is very unlikely to ever require indenting to a second level (since you can’t drill down through folders in it), so the logical separation can be indicated simply with the section headings:
http://mairukipa.tenshu.net/before-after-better.png
January 13th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
(I didn’t spend enough time in gimp to put the extra two characters back into the “Better” column, but you can clearly see that there’s enough space)
January 13th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Hi Chris, please add your suggestion to the bug report. Just register yourself there and add a comment with your image. It looks nicer indeed ;D
January 14th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Chris, you’re lesser indentation is indeed an improvement … but the gray highlights aren’t: Rhythmbox tried the very same thing, and it had to be hard-coded, which led to problems with dark themes. The blank space approach, i.e., just an arrow to the right, would be more sensible, it’s a nice improvement.
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