Re: [Usability] Some usability feedback

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 16:05 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:57:23 +0000
> > From: Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>
> > To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> > Cc: Gnome Usability <usability gnome org>, Nautilus <nautilus-list gnome org>
> > Subject: Re: [Usability] Some usability feedback
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 15:42 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I very much doubt it they would find it appropriate to put it in the
> > > context menu.  There is nothing funny about it these are not arbitrary
> > > decisions and the Nautilus developers have learned from the mistakes of
> > > others (the context menus in Microsoft File Explorer are often a mess of
> > > third party add ons).  Aside from the limited amount of space ordinary
> > > users do not easily discover features only available in context menus.
> > > The search (is in the context of folders but) is not in the context of the
> > > current file or selected files so it doesn't belong in the context menu.
> > > I would object if they put it in the context menu without a really good
> > > justification for doing so but I trust that Nautilus developers would not
> > > do that.
> > >
> >
> > Well I understand flooding the context menu is bad design but in an 00
> > concept, search is a verb on a folder so the context menu is the correct
> > place (I am assuming the context menu should only contain such verbs).
> 
> If you can have it in the context menu only for folders but not the rest
> of the time it might be okay but I'm not sure that is easily done.

That is how i have done it. It appears below "browse folders" on folders
and is invisible on non-folders.

> 
> > Of course whether it would make the shortlist for the limited no of
> > entries permissible there is a different matter and thats precisely the
> > question I was asking - Is search a priority item for the context menu?
> 
> I wouldn't think so.
> 
> That it was not important enough to be included already, would suggest it
> is not important enough to be in the limited space of the context menu.

It wasn't included cause it wasn't implemented (or rather waiting for
medusa)

Again thats an arbitrary decision hence my comment about being funny
about it. IMHO, search is an important feature (as important as browse
folder) and certainly more so than "add to music library". And dont
forget the original email of this thread stated that a novice user
expected search to be in the context menu too. 

jamie.

> 
> > It could of course be in the edit menu as well.
> 
> Would definately be useful to have it in the menus.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - Alan H.
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