Re: [Usability] side pane in nautilus

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 2 Sep 2008, at 12:23, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> Op dinsdag 02-09-2008 om 10:42 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Luca
> Cappelletti:
>
>
> > In my experience and what I've observed to my tested users, nobody of
> > them went off Places sidebar menu.They never selected Tree or  
> > Emblems.
>
> That's because it's unobvious that they exist in the first place.
>
> If the sidebar dropdown menu were replaced by an accordion  
> widget[1], I
> wouldn't be surprised when the results were very different!

Yeah-- for one thing, I'd scream :)  I've hated those widgets since  
the first day I saw one in Microsoft Exchange (as Outlook was called  
then)... it generated more support calls in our office building than  
any new feature in any product I can ever remember :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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