Re: [Usability]Dealing with files in Gnome

[Wesley Leggette <wleggette gate net>]

Nestor,

What a great idea. So instead of clicking on the icon and then clicking
on a button, you drag the icon into one of several options presented on
the sidebar!

How would this be implemented?

-Wesley


On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 08:41, nestor d v wrote:
> One idea:
> If the folder has a couple of recognised documents, music and images,
> why not make the sidebar show the following buttons/icons: play music,
> view image and edit image so the user just have to drop the file to the
> button of the action he/she wants. No internal viewer is used in first
> place, and in this way we follow the drag-and-use method for emblems and
> other stuff in gnome.
> Another example: a folder contains a OOO document and a plain text
> document. Then, the sidebar will show: [open with OOO] and [edit with
> gedit.]
> If the user tries to drop the OOO document to the edit with gedit the
> button will became grey before the mousebutton is released, this way the
> user is advised that the program won't open that file. For the plain
> text file both buttons will be highlighted on mouseover with the file
> picked.
> This is much faster than opening in the embebbed viewer and then
> choosing the program in the sidebar. You can throw several files also,
> say to the mediaplayer and you will add them to the playlist.
> This way we have a common behaviour for different filetypes (coherence?)
> Yours:
> nestor diaz
> augcyl.org
> hispalinux.es
> gimp.es.gnome.org
> 
> El mar, 01-04-2003 a las 15:59, MArk Finlay escribió:
> > > Then you're throwing the generic bonobo container idea overboard. That
> > > just *has* to have some useful purpose, right? We just haven't found it
> > > yet...
> > 
> > Well it's relatively useful for folder views. Can't say I use them much
> > myself. But for files I think that they are just wrong!
> 
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