Re: [Usability]Dealing with files in Gnome

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

> <snip>

> > Would it not make more sense to have "View with.." and "Edit with.."
> > items in the nautilus context menu, than to have an "Open with.." item
> > with a mixture of viewers and editors, and with no obvious distinction
> > between them?
> 
> Don't forget that you might be wanting to "Listen ..." to a file, e.g.
> an MP3/ogg song. I believe "Open with ..." has to stay in its generic
> form because of this and other specific cases.

I think listen is the same as view (- maybe a wording change) since
you're not modifying the file. Maybe for sound files, a synthesizer can
be the 'edit'or and a player can be the 'viewer'. We'll probably need
the 'View' string to be overridable for file types for which 'View' does
not make much sense (.e. sound files)

> <snip>
> So you're proposing to have an "Open in the same window" for directories
> and "Open in a new window" for files defaults? I would like such a
> chance to handle files/dirs, but it might be confusing for the user.

Not really - I think you underestimate the end user. Anyone slightly
familiar with the desktop metaphor can distinguish between files and
directories. So, having two options 'Open files in seperate window' and
'Open directories in seperate window' makes good sense IMO.

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Biswa.