[Usability]Re: Nautilus Preference Proposal (screenshots too!!!!)

[Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <rosselli ling unipi it>]

Dave Bordoley wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 23:00, Darryl Rees wrote:
>
> > Could you could have it in both, that would be fine. But to remove it 
> > from the nautilus app would make it more difficult for newbies to find 
> > the preferences, and involve more work for any user - it just makes it 
> > 'less accessible'. Users are conditioned to be able to find an app's 
> > preferences inside the app, and these are unquestionably nautilus 
> > preferences even if they have global effects on the file selector, etc. 
> > Should be extremely easy to test in a useability study I guess, once 
> > there are working examples...
>
>
> This is an option. I guess my personal bias is that I would like the
> nautilus ui to move away from that of a file browser application to that
> of a folder viewer, in which case having global prefs seems to make more
> sense. I don't actually think this will be all that confusing, but we
> could do some testing to see what the best option is. Perhaps this
> includes both.

I would like it to go into the control center, that would be consistent 
with the idea of Nautilus being a part of the GNOME desktop instead of a 
standalone application. But anyway: couldn't the Edit/Preferences menu 
item just launch the control center applet? Problem solved.

> > Suggestion for a new pref - date/time format. Nautilus always uses the 
> > most verbose format possible, it's quite fatigueing to read...
>
>
> Well I don't know if a preference is needed or not. However as I
> mentioned the current proposal is aimed at being realistic. Such a pref
> may or may not be warranted, file a bug and we can hatch it out on
> bugzilla. Perhaps the default should just be changed to be more useful?

I agree with Darryl on this one, the current format is too verbose (= 
lot of space gone); you should also consider the fact that the date/time 
format changes from country to country, so a preference option would be 
needed.

> > > 4. Desktop and Trash category
> > > -----------------------------
> >
> > Actually it would be nice to be able to configure *any* folder to be 
> > used as your desktop - I guess I just lost all credibility with this 
> > comment.
>
>
> Well there are all kinds of issues this may present, I won't get into
> them now. I think we should just pick something and go with it. For my
> money, I'd want $home as desktop, but thats a whole different flame war
> :)

;) Would be nice, though ...


Ciao

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