Make refresh more easily accessible in pathbar location style

When the location bar is set to pathbar style, you can't reach the refresh button in the location bar without first having the location bar turn into toolbar style mode first.

Mockup 1 (add it with the location bar)

Mockup 2 (add it outside of the location bar)

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I see no reason why it would be in the location bar in the first place. I'll move it outside the location bar and probably near the home button, like in firefox and chrome.

mentioned in merge request !99 (merged)

@philipzae, is that "refresh" button something you use often ? I mean, is it needed at all to have it prominent in the toolbar ? Or did you only think about moving it out for symetry reasons ?

So far nobody else complained about it. Maybe that "refresh" is a thing from the past, before folder-watch worked fine and for the few occasions where it is needed, it is fine to use the window-menu ?

Suppose most people anyhow press f5 or CTRL+R, learned from browsers, where it is more relevant.

The main reason I often have to hit refresh is because of #267 (closed).

Than I suppose we should rather fix that bug and just remove refresh as well from the pathbar :)

Even with that bug fixed, there will be times when I want to refresh and I may forget the shortcut or may not be near the keyboard, so the button will always be useful in the toolbar. We definitely grew up on the shortcuts, but there are many users who never used the shortcuts, or what to fresh from a touch screen, so the button is still useful.

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Even with that bug fixed, there will be times when I want to refresh and I may forget the shortcut or may not be near the keyboard

View -> reload , only one additional click.

We definitely grew up on the shortcuts, but there are many users who never used the shortcuts, or what to fresh from a touch screen, so the button is still useful.

I dont plan to dump the "reload" feature, I just dont want to waste space for it, since I think it is used only rarely.

While touchscreen control generally might work, Xfce is not optimized at all for it. I dont plan to add special support for touch devices / I dont want a GUI which is touch-optimized at all.

I dont plan to dump the "reload" feature, I just dont want to waste space for it, since I think it is used only rarely.

Quite sure I've never hit the home button before, so I'd say that is more of a waste of space than reload. Never click the parent folder button either, as i'm in pathbar style and its less of a mouse movement.

While touchscreen control generally might work, Xfce is not optimized at all for it. I dont plan to add special support for touch devices / I dont want a GUI which is touch-optimized at all.

Not saying that Xfce needs to be optimized for it, just saying that button is easy to click on a touchscreen.

Quite sure I've never hit the home button before, so I'd say that is more of a waste of space than reload.

Yes, I agree that "Home" is superfluous. Specially because there is already the bookmark and tree-view root. Though how does that justify "reload" ?

Never click the parent folder button either, as i'm in pathbar style and its less of a mouse movement.

You mean toolbar-style I suppose. I guess for pathbar-style it still makes sense.

This may not or may not be intuitive, but a click on the currently selected pathbar button could trigger a reload of the folder.

Personally, I would just replace the "Reload" button in the toolbar with a "Clear Line" button.

Nice idea, but isn't very discoverable.

Fixed by !99 (merged), will be released in thunar 4.17.2

closed

mentioned in merge request !125 (merged)

mentioned in issue #621 (closed)