Re: [Usability] spatial Nautilus, Filechooser: some suggestions

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Thorsten Seitz wrote:

> 1. It would be nice to have the "Open Location" action not just
>    available via Ctrl-L from a Nautilus window but from the Action
>    menu in the panel, too.

Agreed, but it would be even better if there were an entry field on the
panel where you could enter any network- or filesystem location. GNOME
would take care that the right handler for the location is chosen.

> 2. The "Open Location" dialog should work like that of the
>    Filechooser, i.e.  it should offer completions in a drop down list,
>    too.

Perhaps this could be nicely combined with Nautilus' Connect to Server
dialog. See also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139105

> 3. Renaming the Home folder on the desktop should work on the
>    Filechooser, too, i.e. the Home folder should appear with its new

IMHO the desktop should *be* the home folder, but this discussion has
been closed, you can set the gconf key but it's not going to be default
in the forseeable future.

> name is "Persönlicher Ordner" which is rather long for the path button.

Now *that's* interesting. At GUADEC I talked to people who were
convinced that we (Dutch l10n team) were the only ones that translated
'Home' on GNOME that way.

> 6. It should be possible to bookmark folders from their Nautilus windows.

Disagree. The filechooser is a very different beast than Nautilus.
There would be no immediate feedback if you bookmarked a folder that
way, and the user wouldn't have an easy way to know that those folders
will end up in the filechooser bookmarks.

> 7. Filesystem bookmarks should be accessible from the Locations menu in
> Nautilus windows.

I do agree that the Locations should be extendable but I'm not sure this
is the right way to do it.

Have you filed RFE bugs for your suggestions?

regards,

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