Re: The future direction of the Nautilus UI)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 bordoley msu edu wrote:

> George Farris <george gmsys com> said:
> 
> > I'm sorry but I disagree.  Each persons brain works in a certain way and
> > it doesn't matter whether they are a home/office user or a hacker. 
> > Those of type A will understand the Nav model quite nicely and those of
> > type B will understand the OO model.
> > 
> > Certainly given that the web is a Nav model many type B people will also
> > clue into the Nav model.
> > 
> 
> 
> Well other than people are used to objects because they deal with them 
> everyday, so most people will be accustom with the principle. 
> 
> Anyway seth's comments at the below link really best sum up the problems with 
> the navigation UI.
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2002-September/msg00014.html

I don't think that mail is very relevant. All it talks about is that URIs 
look ugly. It says nothing about the navigation concept.

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