[Usability] Re: Killing Views Part 2 - The return of the Usabilty study

[Darryl Rees <rees netnam vn>]

Darryl Rees wrote:

> Alexander Larsson wrote:
>
> > But a change of default behaviour will instead cause "usability
> > problems" for the people who like the current setup. The sun test shows
> > only that some people can be confused by the current way, not that
> > nobody will be confused or work more efficiently with another way.
> > Replies in this thread confirm that there are also people more
> > comfortable with the current design.
> >  
> As nautilus has the ability to do it either way, and people seem to 
> have different ideas about how it should work, maybe we should focus 
> on making it very easy to configure. The viewing preferences dialog 
> needs a fair amount of love anyway...

eg. for discussion purposes, maybe something along the lines:

+------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                  |
|    Change view properties for:    fred.html                      |
|                                X  All html files                 |
|                                                                  |
| +----------------------+-----------+--------------+              |
| | Views                | View menu | Default view |              |
| +----------------------+-----------+--------------+              |
| | View as text         |     X     |              |              |
| | View as html         |     X     |       X      |              |
| | Run application      |     X     |              |              |
| |                      |           |              |              |
| +----------------------+-----------+--------------+              |
|                                                                  |
|                                                                  |
|                                                  +-----------+   |
|   Detailed settings for filetypes and programs:  | Configure |   |
|                                                  +-----------+   |
|                                                                  |
|                                                                  |
|+------+                                        +------+ +-------+|
|| Help |                                        | Quit | | Apply ||
|+------+                                        +------++-------+|
+------------------------------------------------------------------+

OK, this has some probs, like the 'view menu' column would be multiple 
select whereas the default view is like a radio select, just trying to 
foment some discussion with this.

The 'filetypes and programs' dialog needs some work as well. At first 
glance it LOOKS like somewhere you can configure extra handlers for 
mimetypes, took me quite a while to work out that it wasn't.

Cheers,
Long.