Re: [Usability] [Yet Another] New File Chooser Design

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 14:14, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 01:46, Luke Hutchison wrote:
> 
> > Here is a proposed design for a File Chooser with a menu bar :o)
> > 
> >   http://rivit.cs.byu.edu/~lukeh/filechooser/index.html
> 
> Dialogs don't and shouldn't have menu bars, iirc.  Adding one makes it
> look like a document or application window, not a dialog.

I agree with that - we dont want something that looks like win95
find/search dialog.

>From a usability point of view I would like the file dialog to have
similar usability to nautilus (similar toolbar with smaller icons,
ability to change what the left pane displays etc). I know MS does that
with explorer and Im not saying MS is necessary right here but I do like
the consistency. Obviously there would have to be some additions for
extra functionality but the closer it is to nautilus the better IMO.

jamie.