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So if I'm going through Nautilus now every time I want to open a
document, I'm now in a document centric mode of thinking rather than
an application centric. So if my thought processes to attacking a
problem begin with thinking about the document and not about the
application, why have the application be separate from the "document
application" Nautilus? These viewers/editors I spoke of can simply be an
extension of document navigation. Any changes are automatically saved.
Hitting the back button takes you back to the file tree. The user need
not concern him/herself with the memory management of having many
applications open at the same time. And though you may disagree, the
user need not concern him/herself with whatever application is needed to
manipulate the document.

In truth, Nautilus could be a framework that makes applications
obsolete. Applications evolve to be extensions of documents, not
documents being extensions of applications.

That having been said, Luis is right. But here's a question: should we
do UI reviews for core applications that haven't been ported to GNOME 2
yet? e.g. gAIM, Evolution, Anjuta, etc...

-jag

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:44, Calum Benson wrote:
> <devil's advocate>
> One question I always ask myself when people tout this idea is...
> "what's the advantage"?  I can see it's potentially useful if you're
> working on documents that contain (say) pictures, text and sound, all of
> which you could possibly edit in the same window provided the editing
> components weren't too complex, but I doubt that most people need to do
> that very often, really.
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> One of the main advantages people claim is that you don't have to care
> about which app to open, but the chances are you will anyway.  There are
> still going to be umpteen competing graphics components out there with
> different features, and even if you could load them all into the same
> view at the same time so you could pick-and-choose whichever combination
> of features you needed, the GUI would probably be too complex to be
> worth the bother :)
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> Otherwise, you're probably still going to want to open different windows
> to work on different tasks anyway, or even just to enable you to drag
> and drop things between views.  So what would be the difference between
> a Nautilus shell with a text editor embedded in it, and say, gedit?=20
> Very little, you would hope, which brings me back to my original
> question :)
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> </devil's advocate>
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> Cheeri,
> Calum.
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