Re: [PATCH] Hide clean up by name

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 17:22 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
>
>
> > Its typically considered bad ui when the menu for a specific context
> > contains different items depending on some state. The normal thing to do
> > then is to use insensitive menu items. I'm sure the HIG has something to
> > say on this.
>
>
> A little, not as much as it could.  But you're right, basically a
> context menu should contain the same menu items for objects of the same
> type, whatever state the selected instance is in.  State-specific items
> are then made sensitive or insensitive as appropriate. 
>
> Part of the fun in any UI design is determining what the user will
> regard as objects of the same type, objects of different types, and
> different states of the same object.  For example, if you have two icons
> in a file manager, one representing an application and one a document,
> does the user regard them as two icons (which should therefore behave
> quite similarly), or as the application and the document they represent
> (which should probably behave quite differently)...?
OK, if you define it like this you are completely right.

What strikes me that I (a pretty computer savvy person) wondered for a 
long time how to get it enabled.
Probably this is also because file browsing in Manual Mode does not seem 
very useful to me. If you do that then I have the feeling that the only 
thing you will be doing with your computer is reorganizing files.

With this specific Clean Up by Name for me you are in such a different 
context when your are in one of the non-manual manual modes, that you 
really wonder how on earth this you can get this enabled.

I basically had the same with the "Use Default Background" (See one of 
my other posts). IMHO I think usability of nautilus can improve 
overhere.  But then again I don't know how most people have been or are 
wondering the same about these two items. Maybe it's just me.


Jaap