Re: [Usability]Dealing with files in Gnome

[nestor d v <nestordiaz misfotos de>]

El mié, 02-04-2003 a las 02:04, Wesley Leggette escribió:
> 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?
There is no way I can tell you how to do that, because I am not a
programmer, just interested in user interface and designer.
As I am not a power-terminal-bashscripting-user, I can speak for many
"base users", and I think it could be great to add that functionality to
the side bar, instead of going through the open in viewer step and
choosing the app.
Yours:
Nestor di
> 
> -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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