Re: [Usability]Dealing with files in Gnome

[Wesley Leggette <wleggette gate net>]

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:58, MArk Finlay wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:41, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
> 
> > I only find it "less than ideal" when you have already opened a file, 
> > let's say an image, and you have all those options appearing as buttons 
> > in the sidebar: awkward and not very elegant IMHO.
> 
> Yeah, it's pretty sucky - but yeah, I don't like internal viewers :)
> 
> > Don't forget that you might be wanting to "Listen ..." to a file, e.g. 
> > an MP3/ogg song. I believe "Open with ..." has to stay in its generic 
> > form because of this and other specific cases.
> 
> Mmm, well maybe we could find a sense-inspecific term. But listening to
> an mp3 falls into the viewing catagory.
> 
> > So you're proposing to have an "Open in the same window" for directories 
> > and "Open in a new window" for files defaults? I would like such a 
> > chance to handle files/dirs, but it might be confusing for the user.
> 
> I've been very tempted to request this option before. But I knew that it
> would never be put in, and I don't even want it in really. If that is
> the right way to do it then that is how nautilus should work. If it's
> the wrong way then I can just shut up or patch my local copy :) 
> 
> My main argument for having the above described behavior as the way
> nautilus "just works" is based on the idea that nautilus should be a
> container for folders and no more. It makes perfect sense in that
> context for new folders to be opened in the same window, but new files
> to be open in a program designed for that file.
> 
> But ATM that is not what nautilus is. Nautilus is a shell - it's half
> way between a file manager and a full application desktop. We have a
> massive overlap between what nautilus is trying to do and what
> applications on the desktop are doing and IMHO we should choose one
> direction and go with it. Nautilus tries so do so much *sigh*

So are you saying that we should eliminate the simple text and image
viewer in nautilus? If so, which applications do you want to replace
them with?


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Wesley Leggette <wleggette gate net>