Re: [Nautilus-list] Usability - death of options 2

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Вячеслав Диконов <sdiconov mail ru> writes:
> > Hundreds of millions of users get by on Windows and Mac without the
> > preference for what happens on inserting removable media. So the
> > burden of proof is on you to explain why it is required for a "usable
> > filemanager" - why is Linux special? 
> It is special because _supermount_ is not included in the modern 2.4
> kernels and users have to mount all media manually.

Good, that's the point I wanted you to think through.

The reason Linux is special is because the OS defaults are broken; Mac
and Windows have smarter behavior. ;-) So a preference or workaround
here might make sense. But not because it's a good UI, but because we
are working around broken defaults in the OS we can't change
short-term.

If a preference is added here, it's not because preferences are good,
but just because we suck too much to really fix the default behavior.
Knowing the right thing before adding the workaround is vitally
important.

> OK. Here is a list of what makes Nautilus a bad (unusable) filemanager.

This is a good list of high-priority bugs, it would be nice to get
them marked in bugzilla in some way. We need more Nautilus hackers...

Havoc