Re: [Nautilus-list] Constructive Criticism Revisted

[James Mitchell Allmond <gte203h prism gatech edu>]

Trees are useful but they are also a pain in the ass because they can
get so messy so fast. I don't even show the sidebar to the left with the
tree and history because I find it useless and messy looking. Maybe a
mix between my "Places" icons and the tree idea would work. Have the
tree show the fundamental "places" at the top at all times with icons.
Then somehow do the tree for the "Place" selected below in a tree. Still
though, I think a tree is too messy. I rather select the fundamental
"place" on the toolbar or on a side bar and then browse through the
contents in the nautilus window. If I want to copy files, it's easier,
cleaner, and more straight forward to just open another nautilus window
to work with. 

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 00:33, Matthew J. Doller wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 22:31, James Mitchell Allmond wrote:
> > I don't think either of my two nautilus UIs are confusing. In fact, they
> > are just the opposite. It's clear how to access any drive. Once that
> > goal is accomplished, the rest is childs play. Remember a computer
> > illiterate person knows nothing of file systems. All they know is that
> > they want to access their floppy or cdrom drive and put its files (like
> 
> i wrote to the list a few months ago suggesting that either
> a) the tree be reworked to show devices like this ( the kde sidebar in
> konqueror does this, as does windows explorer, to some extent) or 
> b) the bookmarks should be moved to the sidebar, and be organized into
> some sort of tree themselves.
> 
> there may be usability issues with the implementation of a), since there
> would be multiple tree entries for, say, cd-roms.
> 
> at any rate, i dont see the reasoning on getting rid of the throbber for
> what seems to be just for the sake of getting rid of it. replacing it
> with a giant translucent gnome foot seems like adding a lot more visual
> noise in exchange for no usability benefit.
> 
> screenshots of my proposed nautilus bookmarks, as well as the current
> nautilus sidebar can be found at www.wpi.edu/~mdoller/nautilus/
> (ignore the "Programs" section in the nautilus mockup.  i got carried
> away :)
> 
> matt
> 
> -- 
> Matthew J. Doller 
> mdoller wpi edu
> http://www.wpi.edu/~mdoller