Re: [Usability] My take on Nautilus must-fix proposal

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Luis Villa <louie ximian com> writes: 
> <ximian hat=off>
> Totally my personal opinion: the problem that every single user I've
> ever spoken to is that even on extremely fast machines it takes 15-30
> seconds to open new windows in nautilus. If that problem is not solved,
> no amount of other work is going to people* use it. Tabbing or other
> tweaks once the window is open are not the problem- it's startup speed,
> startup speed, startup speed. That window opening is /slower/ in 1.0.5
> is a /huge/ usability regression that I can't believe people here
> (*cough*seth*cough*) did not make a huge stink about. Once this problem
> is solved, a lot more hackers will use nautilus; a lot more normal
> people will use nautilus; and it'll start to get a lot more usable
> overall.
> </>

Agree.

Havoc