[Fwd: [Nautilus-list] Results of MIT usability testing]

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Yes, I suppose I have been spoiled by lists that set themselves as 
reply-to . . . . .

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• From: "Tom Georgoulias (rn0621)" <tom georgoulias motorola com>
• To: Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>
• Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] Results of MIT usability testing
• Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:08:16 -0600

This wasn't cc'd to the nautilus list; it only came to me.  If you want
everyone to read it (which I think is good since I like your ideas), you
need to send it there.

Ben Ford wrote:
> 
> Tom Georgoulias (rn0621) wrote:
> 
> > I think a better approach is one I seem to recall from my usage of
> > BeOS.  If I'm not mistaken, BeOS had a great feature that allowed you to
> > right click on an icon and one of the menu options was "move to ->."
> > Highlighting that "move to ->" item would then spawn a series of sub
> > panels that allowed you to traverse the file tree and easily select the
> 
> I like that idea.  It ought to be applied to copy as well.  As far as
> this goes, I also have a feature request.  i would like this "move/copy
> to" menu to be hackable.  windows was to a point, you could place
> shortcuts there and "send to" floppy, email, zip-disk, winzip etc.  I
> used this functionality *all* the time and it is one thing I really do
> miss about windows explorer.  Of course, ours should have the ability to
> link it to shell scripts, modules or anything we want to.
> 
> -b

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