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

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

I think there will be various patterns of usage in Nautilus, of which yours
is probably a common one, but probably not the only common one. I expect
another common one is to leave Nautilus running all the time, and use it to
launch applications, browse images, read help, etc, as well as to perform
traditional file manager operations.

You have a really good point that if we had alternate ways to move/copy
files from one directory to another using a single window then using the
tree often would be less necessary.

John

on 3/11/01 10:43 AM, Alexander Skwar at ASkwar digitalprojects com wrote:

> So sprach John Sullivan am Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:44:24AM -0800:
>> Another argument I've heard is that the "Open With" buttons in the sidebar
>> essentially are invisible because users have the Tree view up all the time.
>> This is definitely a serious problem if true, since it also makes all the
>> rest of the sidebar useless (Help, Notes, etc.). I'm curious why people
>> leave the Tree up all the time -- maybe there are ways to make that not
> 
> Uhm, maybe I have a misinterpretation about what Nautilus is supposed to be.
> For me, it's a file manager, ie. it allows me to do stuff to files.
> Managing files also includes moving around the directory tree.  For example,
> I want to copy it from one directory to another one, where the target
> directory is not a subdirectory of the source directory.
> 
> For this, I either need a directory tree, I should be able to copy-n-paste
> it (a la Windows Explorer) or I should be able to right click on the file
> and choose something like "Copy" which should present me a dialog asking for
> the target directory.
> 
> Personally, I like the first approach most, because it is the fastest way to
> do this.
> 
> And since Nautilus is a file manager to me, I start Nautilus when I want to
> manage files.  As I tried to explain above, I need/want to have the tree
> view up all the time.  The other views are nice - but I hardly ever use
> them.
> 
> Alexander Skwar