Re: Feature and string break request

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi,

2008/3/17, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>:
> Le lundi 17 mars 2008, à 09:57 +0100, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
>
> >
>  > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:56 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
>  >
>  > > For translators: the new string is "Archive Mounter".
>  > >
>  > > Alex, your patch doesn't modify POTFILES.in :-)
>  > >
>  > > I'm a bit mixed on the feature freeze break. It sounds harmless and
>  > > more of a good thing. But then it deprecates file-roller in some part
>  > > since it's not needed to read archives anymore... I need to think a bit
>  > > more about this, I guess.
>  >
>  > Deprecates is a bit harsh. File roller is still what you want to use for
>  > things like creating an archive or adding a file to an archive. Or even
>  > extracting a whole archive to some place (via the extract archive menu
>  > item in nautilis). Mounting an archive is more when you want to browse
>  > into archives, similar to how you would use loopback mounting of ISO
>  > images. In fact i think the ISO image support is the most important part
>  > of the archive backend.
>
>
> Looks like I didn't emphasizes enough the "in some part" part of my
>  sentence :-) It doesn't completely deprecate file-roller, sure, but it
>  deprecates it for quite some use cases. It could totally replace
>  file-roller in my personal case, eg.
>
>  What do other release team members think?

I'm more concerned about the usability part of this addition. I'm sure
if "mounting an archive" is an intuitive metaphor for the users.

It would be nice to hear the opinion of someone from usability team.

--lucasr