Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [Usability] user levels, etc.

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 11:47, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> "Sergio A. Kessler" <sergio_kessler hotmail com> writes:
> 
> > ha ??
> > what you've found is a very, /very/ geekish way to
> > acomplish a task, at expenses of the confusion of most
> > people out there...
> 
> I don't think it's geekish -- it's just potentially redundant.
> 
> > jonathan, if something confuse you for a second,
> > it will confuse newbies for the rest of their life...
> > (or at least when they try gnome, before ditching it
> > out because gnome is too hard/confusing to use)
> 
> I wasn't confused -- I just felt it wasn't necessary.  Since then, I've
> changed my mind.  I find I use that icon more often than either the
> start menu or the panel icon.  Additionally, claiming that this feature
> will drive people away from GNOME is overstating the claim a bit.  I
> don't care too much one way or another -- I just wanted to let people
> know that I actually use this feature...

It seems potentially useful, and I don't mind it being created by
default, but when something's deleted it shouldn't re-appear. Either we
should prevent it from being deleted (annoying but at least consistent)
or it should stay deleted.

-Seth