Re: [Usability] user levels, etc.

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 20:42, Seth Nickell wrote:
> 
> > Did we actually get any really good usability testing done on this? Did
> > Eazel? I really do agree that ~ as the desktop is better. *Hackers* may have
> > a lot of files in their ~, but everyone else? :)
> 
> This preference is my "fault". I wanted to have desktop be ~/, and I
> still feel that its a generally superior arrangement for novices and
> advanced users, however there was disagreement on this point. If we
> removed user levels from Nautilus I think this preference should not
> remain. I would hope that we would change to using ~ by default, but if
> not I will live ;-)

All this discussion made me experiment with using ~ as my desktop. :)
I kind of like it -- for one thing, it's an encouragement *not* to fill
my home directory full of files (otherwise why did I create a ~/tmp 
directory in the first place, dammit!).

But the immediate problem I notice is that there's no way from the 
desktop to get to any of the options in the "view" menu in window
mode -- "Lay out items by..." and "Zoom" being the ones I most find
myself missing. (Of course what I really want is "snap to grid" for
manual layout. :>

> Currently the only two applications on my system that seem to do this
> are Evolution and GNUStep (ie WindowMaker). (side note: damnit!
> evolution really shouldn't be cluttering my home directory with stupid
> non-user-manipulatable data directories).

What about Nautilus itself? What happens if I delete ~/Nautilus?

--D