Make the window look more like a native file explorer window

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Issue by normanr
Tuesday Jan 10, 2012 at 17:08 GMT
Originally opened as sole#13

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It would be nice to be able to hide the local folder, and put the device_cwd into the title bar, to make the window more like a native file explorer window.

With a little more work, the progress bar could be moved into it's own window that would be opened for each operation.

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Comment by sole
Tuesday Jan 10, 2012 at 21:47 GMT

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Ah, I see what you mean! I kind of like that idea, but it might be problematic (when things don't quite communicate properly between the window and the desktop so to say, having two panes is the only solution to move data around).

You're also right about the progress bar-it needs some love, as well as the way transfers are reported. I hadn't thought of the solution you propose... although I'm not sure I totally like it. With that kind of pop ups I tend to lose track of them and end up trying to close their associated program, thinking they've finished already, if you know what I mean.

I also do not want to modify the current codebase much further -specially the GUI-related code- because I want to look into how Python 3 and GObject work (pyGTK doesn't work with Python3 and won't work either). I don't know how long will it take me to get up to speed with GObject but I definitely don't want to do things twice.

Definitely good suggestions, will think about them :-)

Thanks!

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Comment by normanr
Wednesday Jan 11, 2012 at 15:17 GMT

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I did a quick investigation, and according to http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject/IntrospectionPorting converting pygtk 2 to pygi gtk 3 can be done pretty simply (there's even a pygi-convert.sh script which might just-work). It also looks you can switch to pygi gtk without moving to python 3.0