Re: UI Freeze Breakage Request: Nautilus

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 16:45 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 22.02.2005, 16:13 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming:
> > On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 15:51 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > I'd like to request approval for UI freeze breakage.
> > > Description of the nautilus patch (from [1]):
> > > 
> > > "After applying this patch, you should be able to drag any focused
> > > folder's spatial window through it's location button located on the
> > > bottom left of the window. It will allow you to move, copy or link the
> > > dragged folder to any other folder, including the trash."
> > 
> > This seems like a new feature to me, rather than just a UI break. But
> > anyway, why can't this wait for GNOME 1.11/12?
> 
> Hrm, Nautilus maintainers think it is nice to have this in 2.10.
> Follow-ups on usability and nautilus-list (see [1] follow-up from Luca
> for instance) heavily appreciate this patch. It really seems to improve
> user experience since it allows you to really operate on the open folder
> instead of opening the parent folder first.

I don't understand. I thought it let you do things with the current
folder. How does it let you do things with a parent folder?

> Maybe it's just me, but is there really any reason to reject this
> (codewise terse) patch? Doesn't calling this a feature addition mean
> breaking a butterfly on a wheel? This is just some simple drag handler
> magic.

Even if it's a UI change, we are still days away from a code freeze. The
UI freeze is not just for documenters. It also encourages stability and
provides enough feedback on changes. 

> > > The patch to be applied is under [2] (with a slight change described in
> > > [3]).
> > 
> > Technically, we do like  you to test the actual patch before asking for
> > approval.
> 
> How do you mean that? I wrote patch [1] and [2] myself, where [2] is a
> heavily improved version of [1]. Both are been tested extensively by me.
> By mentioning [3], I just wanted to point out that a little bit of the
> code (a flag) will be changed in the final version.
> Maybe the term "to be applied" wasn't clear enough. I should have said
> "to be checked in".
> 
> I'd also like to point out that I was asked by Alex Larsson to handle
> this process [3].
> 
> > > [1]
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-February/msg00030.html
> > > [2]
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-February/msg00090.html
> > > [3]
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-February/msg00096.html
> 
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