Re: [Usability]URI's

[<bordoley msu edu>]

Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl> said:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In the nautilus-cd-burner module, I encounter this string:
> 
> #: nautilus-cd-burner.c:476
> msgid ""
> "You need to copy the files you want to write to CD to the burn:///
> location."
> 
> Do people agree with me that users should be exposed to URI's as little as
> possible? Is this message even comprehensible at all to people who don't
> know the location bar well?
> 

Well Nils Pedersen (Sun UI guy) is quoted as saying "URIs are E V I L :)"
here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-January/msg00277.html

and I remember him saying something to the effect of "URI's are implementation
B.S." in IRC awhile, though that is not a direct quote.

Of course I'm one of those psycho UI people who thinks that at the least the
location bar should be turned off by default (even provided a patch for this, see 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82107) and ideally full scale removed. 

dave