Re: PATCH: Bug 82107, Turn off nautilus sidebar and location bar by default

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Hi,

Just wanted to throw in that I agree with both of these. However.... If
you are turning the location bar off, you are effectively moving from a
navigation metaphor to an object metaphor. Opening new windows on double
click makes a lot more sense for the object metaphor (since you are
"opening" a new folder, not changing where your viewer is pointed).

-Seth

On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 13:12, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> This patch turns off the location bar and sidebar by default.CCing
> usability list on this to get there opinions as well. Below are some of
> my comments from the bug.
> 
> dave
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> IMHO, the default nautilus look is to cluttered and can be confusing to
> users.
> 
> 1) The location bar should be off by default.
>    First, the location bar is a feature that is used by fairly advance
> users.  Since it requires knowledge of the layout of the unix filesystem
> to be of any use. To a user new to unix, being able to enter in a
> location doesn't mean anything if they aren't familiar with the unix
> directory system.
>   Which leads to my second point, though more thorough user testing is
> needed, I suspect that for the vast majority of new users (particularly
> windows converts) the presence of the location bar strongly suggests
> that nautilus can be used as a web browser (I've actually experienced
> this in practive). Currently the consensus seems to be that nautilus
> will be primarily a file manager and that galeon will be the gnome web
> browser. Based on this consensus, I think it is important to visually
> distinguish nautilus to avoid the misconception that nautilus is a web
> browser. (note yes nautilus can be used as a web browser with galeon
> view, however it really does not have the features of a full fledge web
> browser and probably shouldn't)
> 
> 2) The sidebar should be off by default
>    The sidebar takes up an enormous amount of screen space( about 1/5 of
> the nautilus window) while providing little to no general user benefit.
> The default tabs, notes and history, are not commonly used enough to
> justify using up the such a large portion of screen space.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> 

> Index: ChangeLog
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/nautilus/ChangeLog,v
> retrieving revision 1.5500
> diff -p -u -r1.5500 ChangeLog
> --- ChangeLog	30 Aug 2002 19:03:43 -0000	1.5500
> +++ ChangeLog	31 Aug 2002 17:50:45 -0000
> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
> +2002-08-31  David Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>
> +
> +	* libnautilus-private/nautilus-global-preferences.c
> +	* libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas
> +	Turn off the sidepane and location bar by default. Makes 
> +	the default UI cleaner looking (bug 82107).
> +
>  2002-08-30  Alexander Larsson  <alexl redhat com>
>  
>  	Branched off Gnome 2.0.x development on the gnome-2-0 branch.
> Index: libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/nautilus/libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas,v
> retrieving revision 1.9
> diff -p -u -r1.9 apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas
> --- libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas	23 Aug 2002 14:23:14 -0000	1.9
> +++ libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas	31 Aug 2002 17:50:51 -0000
> @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@
>        <applyto>/apps/nautilus/preferences/start_with_location_bar</applyto>
>        <owner>nautilus</owner>
>        <type>bool</type>
> -      <default>true</default>
> +      <default>false</default>
>        <locale name="C">
>           <short>Show  location bar in new windows</short>
>           <long>
> @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@
>        <applyto>/apps/nautilus/preferences/start_with_sidebar</applyto>
>        <owner>nautilus</owner>
>        <type>bool</type>
> -      <default>true</default>
> +      <default>false</default>
>        <locale name="C">
>           <short>Show side bar in new windows</short>
>           <long>
> Index: libnautilus-private/nautilus-global-preferences.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/nautilus/libnautilus-private/nautilus-global-preferences.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.204
> diff -p -u -r1.204 nautilus-global-preferences.c
> --- libnautilus-private/nautilus-global-preferences.c	9 Jul 2002 20:57:12 -0000	1.204
> +++ libnautilus-private/nautilus-global-preferences.c	31 Aug 2002 17:50:53 -0000
> @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ static const PreferenceDefault preferenc
>  	},
>  	{ NAUTILUS_PREFERENCES_START_WITH_LOCATION_BAR,
>  	  PREFERENCE_BOOLEAN,
> -	  GINT_TO_POINTER (TRUE)
> +	  GINT_TO_POINTER (FALSE)
>  	},
>  	{ NAUTILUS_PREFERENCES_START_WITH_STATUS_BAR,
>  	  PREFERENCE_BOOLEAN,
> @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static const PreferenceDefault preferenc
>  	},
>  	{ NAUTILUS_PREFERENCES_START_WITH_SIDEBAR,
>  	  PREFERENCE_BOOLEAN,
> -	  GINT_TO_POINTER (TRUE)
> +	  GINT_TO_POINTER (FALSE)
>  	},
>  	{ NAUTILUS_PREFERENCES_TREE_SHOW_ONLY_DIRECTORIES,
>  	  PREFERENCE_BOOLEAN,