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

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 00:40, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On 25Oct2001 11:55PM (-0400), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> The Nautilus developers know about these issues and it's already the
> top priority (after the GNOME 2 port). I don't think putting it on a
> "must fix" list will help much... :-(

Not to target you specifically, maciej, but the admitted release of a
/slower/ 1.0.5 did not give me confidence that this was in fact the
highest priority. Hearing that it is in fact the highest priority is
reassuring.
Luis