Re: [Nautilus-list] Constructive Criticism Revisted

["Matthew J. Doller" <mdoller wpi edu>]

please dont take this personally, as it applies periodically to others,
but please dont send out 100k attachments.  many people on this list are
dial-up users, and consider such things to be mail bombs.  if you have a
large picture that you want seen, please post it on a website.

cheers,
matt

On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 20:26, James Mitchell Allmond wrote:
> Since some of you demanded specific examples, I used gimp to create a
> Nautilus UI that fits what I was thinking in terms of navigation.
> If you pay attention to the toolbars, you'll notice several differences.
> 
> Menubar: 		Get rid of "Go"
> 
> 
> 
> Left Toolbar: 		Get rid of "Home" and get rid of "Web Search"
> 
> 
> 
> Right Toolbar (Places): Add icons/links to the places people think
> about. Most non computer experts think in terms of physical objects.
> Therefore, they want to see their cdrom, their floppy, their zip disk,
> their home(not a hard disk because very few people have seen a hard
> disk. They just think some magical device inside holds their info.)
> Also, it makes navigation much more intuitive and fluid. It also makes
> things easier for dragging files to floppies and zip disks. It could
> also be used to drag files to a cdr-rw. The other things I've added are
> the local network(smb) and the start here icon (they should be able to
> access the ximian setup tools, control panel, etc.... from here).
> 
> Right menubar (action):	This was something I just added cause it could
> have potential. A user could use the search "action" button to drag to
> the floppy, cdrom, home, or whatever. Then a dialog would pop up so that
> the user could enter in the search string. They could also just click on
> the search icon instead of dragging it. This would just bring up a
> dialog that would allow the user to search the current directory or to
> search whichever drives desired via check boxes. The print "action"
> button would also be useful. The use could just click it to print the
> current directory or viewed item or they could drag it to a directory to
> print a directory or drag it to a file to print a file. It would be
> useful and intuitive if a user could drag the print "action" button to a
> abiword or text file and have it automatically printed.  
> 
> 
> 
> This is what I meant in terms of navigation. As of now, I think the
> navigation in nautilus is pretty poor. If you don't have "draw desktop,"
> your navigation is very limited with the UI. Nautilus also needs to have
> a SU/ROOT button so that I can click it, enter in my root password, and
> have it open a new nautilus window with root permissions.
> 
> Any comments on the UI I've presented?
>  
> 
> 
-- 
Matthew J. Doller 
mdoller wpi edu
http://www.wpi.edu/~mdoller