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| From | VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: Desktop Icon, please. |
| Date | 2025-05-06 20:09 -0500 |
| Organization | Usenet Elder |
| Message-ID | <et8tppq4c934.dlg@v.nguard.lh> (permalink) |
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Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
>> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> You put it in the 'Search' box (upper-right). You should put it in the
>>> 'path' [1] box, i.e. the box in the middle.
>>> ...
>>> [1] Does someone know the official name of that <beep> box? With an
>>> official reference please.
>>
>> You mean the address bar?
>>
>> https://uis.georgetown.edu/file-explorer/
>
> Yes, that's the 'thing' I mean. But is that the official - i.e.
> Microsoft designated - name?
>
> I have used the term 'address bar' before, by lack of an official/
> 'better' name.
>
> Personally, I don't consider 'address bar' too great, because (IMO)
> it's not really an 'address' in the normal sense, but a path. OTOH,
> lacking a better term, 'address bar' isn't too bad.
It's what I've known it by since forever. Some more references:
https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2163343&seqNum=2
https://www.customguide.com/windows-10/file-explorer
You can enter a path on a volume which is an address. You can enter a
URL which is an address. You can specify special locations, like
shell:appsfolder. The special destinations are defined at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions
but under GUIDs that you then have to trace back into the registry. For
example, the {1e87508d-89c2-42f0-8a7e-645a0f50ca58} subkey points at the
apps folder (shell:appsfolder). shell:startup points to your Windows
account's Startup folder, shell:common startup (with the space
character) is the common (All Users) Startup folder. Those are
addresses to special paths. there are dozens and dozens of these shell
special locations.
https://ss64.com/nt/shell.html
https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/shell-commands-to-access-the-special-folders/
The address bar is sometimes called the location bar.
The address bar started showing the "bread crumb" path where tokens are
presented for each node (folder) in the path. Instead of walking down a
tree list, you could click on a breadcrumb token to jump directly to
that folder. I never thought a breadcrumbed path was easier to navigate
than a tree, but there could be places where a tree is not listed, like
a Browse dialog for where to save a file.
https://www.jam-software.com/shellbrowser_net/components.shtml
ShellAddressBar
The ShellAddressBar mimics the breadcrumb bar known from Windows File
Explorer.
The element is still referenced as the address bar. I think the
breadcrumbs view showed up in Windows 7, but it's been so long that I
don't want to bother its introduction. I rarely use breadcrumbs, but I
have used them to bounce between folders without using the tree list.
Microsoft started calling it the breadcrumb bar, but that did not sway
the users away from the prior name, and which still encompasses this
element in File Explorer. To get rid of the breadcrumb view, click at
the end to flatten to the backslash-delineated path string.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/controls/breadcrumbbar
When File Explorer was previously called Windows Explorer, that element
was called the address bar. Back in Windows 95, you just had the tree
list, and no address bar.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/File_Manager_Windows_10_screenshot.png
According to:
https://gekk.info/articles/explorer.html
the address bar showed up in File Manager in Windows 98 released 26
years ago, and had an "Address" label on the element. The "Address"
element title disappeared in Windows Vista, but we still had to call it
something, so it kept getting called by what it had been called before.
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