Lakin Wecker wrote:
Benjamin,
It's not my design. Both of those links are what is being used for
the latest nautilus. Version 2.14.1.
I'm sure the developers appreciate your praise. :) I think they've
done a splendid job myself.
Lakin
On 4/15/06, Benjamin Sher <delphi123 zebra net> wrote:
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Lakin Wecker wrote:
Hi Benjamin,
First off, it should be noted that the new version of Nautilus and the
cd-burner (2.14.1) don't have the "burn:///" for either the default
spatial view [1] or the default browse view [2]. At least, they don't
in Ubuntu.
You speak from your experience as a user, which will bring to the
argument all of your assumptions as to how computers work. Other
users will come from different experiences and assumptions. In fact,
I just invited my wife to burn a CD using the spatial interface, and
it took her under 30 seconds to pull it off. 25 of those seconds were
spent convincing her that I wasn't joking, and that she should just
try it. She has never previously burned a CD in her life, although
she is familiar with computers as a Mac OS X user.
Now, this isn't an extensive user study, as my wife is only one
user(although I know quite a few other non-developer's who have
successfully used this interface). But it does show that the
interface is not equivalent to meeting a Martian in a supermarket, for
all users.
I personally think the current interface is very intuitive. It's
simple, and yet it's still consistent with every other nautilus
window, which is something that shouldn't go unnoticed. I typically
use the spatial view as I find it more useful, and logical, and in the
spatial burn view there is only one place that will accept the drop of
the files, and it is the correct place.
Lakin
[1] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~weckerl/default-spatial-view.png
[2] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~weckerl/default-browse-view.png
Dear Lakin:
I appreciate your comments and, of course, one user does represent all
of mankind. So, I have had my piece, you have had yours. Let's leave
it at that and let's the users in time determine what's really right
and what's really intuitive.
Benjamin
Dear Lakin:
On second thought, I rather like your new design for CD/DVD Create. The
new interface is clear and quite intuitive. It's a far cry from what I
saw and had to contend with yesterday afternoon. So, you have my vote
for the new interface. It's appropriately simple and intuitive.
Benjamin
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Dear Lakin:
I see where the problem is: my PCLINUXOS uses Nautilus 2.10.1 whereas
you are way ahead with version 2.14.1. That explains it all. Sure, I
much prefer your new design over the cryptic, I might say, constipatic
design of 2.10.1. Hopefully we'll get the latest version soon.
Thank you for the clarification.
Benjamin
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