Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:10:35PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 19:55 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:16:21PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> <snip>
> > > There's a bug report for that dating 2003:
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103817
> > > 
> > > Forget about patches, there's a nautilus extension packaged and everything!
> > 
> > Meaning: developers did their job, up to the distro to ensure it is
> > installed by default?
> 
> It's a shame that an extension is the wrong way to go about fixing that
> problem as well.

Well, there is GVFS work on browsing archives. You could have the same
for .iso, etc. However, you'd need to think how to integrate things.
Perhaps the default action (thinking about usability) should be to burn
it.. then having double click show the files inside would be confusing.

But I wanted to make clear that there was a 'developer' who made that
extension.. so 'blaming' (gnome) developers is strange. That part was
done elsewhere.
Further, it shouldn't be up to developers to host usability studies.
I'm trying to make clear that having a 'developers should host usability
studies' goal will likely not get the intended result (having better
usability for all users) -- far better to do such a thing yourself...
then convince developers. Think how e.g. Jokosher started. It is
relatively easy to improve things.. but you need to think how to
approach it and don't expect people to jump in right away.


-- 
Regards,
Olav