Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus Smoke Test --- first draft, feedback Request.

[David Bishop <david bishop dhs org>]

I feel strongly about it :-)  The most common use for dragging stuff to the 
desktop (in my experience) is to have a short cut for commonly used programs, 
ie netscrape, eterm, gnapster, et al.  It is extereemly rare for me to 
actually want to *move* something to my desktop (I think it's obvious why I 
don't want to move eterm or netscape).  In fact, the only thing that I can 
imagine wanting to actually reside on my desktop would be documents, which I 
have a seperate folder for anyways.  Please feel free to flame me if I'm 
missing something obvious :-)

d.a.bishop

>on 9/2/00 3:35 PM, Eli Goldberg at eli eazel com wrote:

>> Hi!
>> 
>> I've temporarily posted a first draft of Nautilus Smoke Tests to
>> <http://www.prometheus-music.com/eazel/smoketests.html>, and would
>> appreciate any suggested additions or removals before posting (and
>> using).
>> 
>> The goal is to have a set of test cases that a person can execute in
>> 10-15 minutes or less, which will flag obvious regressions quickly, and
>> indicate whether a build is suitable for further testing.

>Hi Eli,

>Your first draft is a great start to this kind of thing.

>Nitpick: For many of the tasks, you start with "double-click <whatever>".
>Note that unless you've changed the default preference, it only takes a
>single click to activate.

>D-2: You ask whether dragging a file to the desktop should move it or make a
>link (you actually used the Mac term "alias", but you meant the Unix term
>"symbolic link" or just "link"). My preference would be for the desktop to
>act like any other destination, so a link would not be created by default.
>I'm not sure what the current behavior is. And somebody could probably talk
>me out of this if they felt strongly about it.

>P-2: Whether the icon view draws a hyper-link-like underline under the icon
>text is a function of the single-click vs. double-click preference.
>Currently, by default, all three user levels use single-click. So the
>underline should appear in all three user levels unless you've changed the
>preference to double-click-to-activate.

>There are dozens of other tests that you *could* use in such a smoke-test
>scenario, but nothing pops to mind as being particularly missing or extra
>from your list. It seems like a good starting point to me.

>John



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