RE: [Usability] RE: Suggestion for the actual UI of GTK+'s New Fi leSelector

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> >>Hmm, as I recall, Nautilus at least remembered icon/list view
> >>per-folder.  Dunno about zoom.  Ideally, the file selector 
> >>would honor these options completely.
> > 
> > I'm not following this whole thread, but ... I hope you aren't 
> > suggesting that the file selector should switch between 
> icon and list 
> > views as you navigate to a folder, depending on the 
> Nautilus setting 
> > for that folder. The file selector is not the Nautilus file manager.
> 
>  From a usability perpective, let me play devil's advocate 
> for a minute.
> 
> Is this last bit - about the file selector not doing this 
> because it "is 
> not the Nautilus file manager" - really the right REASON for 
> saying that 
> the file selector should not do the suggested behavior?
> 
> I would say no. Not that I necessarily think that the file selector 
> SHOULD do this view switch thing (that I am undecided on).
> 
> Rather, the decision on whether it does this should be based on 
> usability.

Of course, but I thought that the fact that they are different things for
different tasks was a neat summary. And that something should have simple,
understandable behaviour, without freaking people out by pretending to be
half of one thing and half of another.

Murray Cumming
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