RE: About the new download behaviour

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

fre 2003-12-12 klockan 20.08 skrev Marco Pesenti Gritti:
> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 02:00, Mikael Hallendal wrote:

> > Filed this as: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129161
> 
> Interesting problem. I see two possible solutions:
> 
> 1 Open download folder in nautilus and select the downloaded file. That
> way you can fastly remove the file or assign it to an application (well,
> with planned new mime nautilus stuff). It would also give the user a
> clue about why the file has not been opened.
> 2 Show a dialog saying that the file cannot be opened by any application
> and asking the user if he wants to save it on disk. 
>
> What do you think ?

I would definitely say 2. The reasoning is that when saving you are
taking an action that the user hasn't really asked for. Therefor it's
better to ask before doing it.

> > Currently I'm not entirely sure that open in an external application
> > without asking is the best, but I think I might change on that after
> > using it and it's probably best for most people. The problem I see is
> > that it can possibly take a long time to open the application (for
> > example OO.o) which can be a problem if the user accidently pressed a
> > link, or expected another HTML page.
> 
> What exactly you feel like a problem here ? I guess the what's up
> problem could be solved by startup feedback. In general I think that
> crazy startup times like for openoffice are an usability problem in
> itself ...

Yes, what I meant was that it's even more so when the user might not
want it. At least I sometime clicks on a link that I'm not really that
interested in just to see if it happends to be something interesting. If
that would cause me to open OO.o I would be frustrated, this is probably
somewhat a wrong-using of the software from my part so it's not such a
big deal :)

> What about to see if we can get a recomendation from usability team
> about it ?

Sounds like a good plan.

> > 1) The user can rename the file while remember what it is.
> > 2) Put it in some structured manner.
> 
> I agree on this.

Great.

Regards and again, thanks for *GREAT* work!

Mikael Hallendal

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