Re: spatial nautilus proposal

[Luca Cappelletti <luca cappelletti gmail com>]

Hello,
this objects oriented world, made by objects, needs the capability to
handle, manipulate, alter their attributes directly.
The place where you have a one-to-one, directly visual feedback of its
manipulation capability is the window menu bar.
Nautilus start to offer it's attributes manipulation into the File
menu but there's a clear inconsistency beetween the contextual menu of
a selected icons (the target objects) and it's File item menu bar
(when the folder/window is open).
When I work into the object (the simplest case is a nautilus folder) I
need the capability to alter directly it's attributes (Properties).
Did you ever seen how a SGI IRIS window work! Enclosing it's
properties into the menu bar and make it contestual if I select an
object into the window itself.
Enclosing the properties into the menu bar avoid to  minimize the use
of right click mouse (reducing attrition cognition to the ostile mouse
using from the prime time no-geek users).
The Desktop will be the root of all window objects.Actually to access
to some of the Desktop properties we have to right click into it!But a
Panel applet could provide the same functionalities!So that, again, no
right click strictly necessity.

Keywords:
One way to do thinks.
Object oriented world.
Directly and clear properties manipulation.

I kindly advise all of you (I mean the rest of the world) do not
understand how an object oriented world could be, to try to understand
how SmallTalk work and to test a good OO world playing with Squeak and
Zope (python based fully OO Application Server as you just know).


>I still haven't heard of a great idea for how to do this well though.

What did you mean about 'great idea'.
A lot of implementation examples are out there...


bye,

Luca Cappelletti




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