Re: [Usability] Re: FileChooser's path bar and re-rooting

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 10:55, Bryan Clark wrote:
> from gtk-devel-list: moving this part to the usability list...
[...]
>   Going to /home to get to someone else's home
> directory for shared files is a flaw in the interaction design of the
> system. 
and often doesn't work - they might be on /u or /export/home or
whatever.  This is why some file choosers support ~ and ~user directly,
often in that notation (pervasive in Unix if slightly cryptic).
The gnome file chooser (pre 2.6 at least) supported ~user.

> The fundamental idea is that people don't have to know directory
> structure information to share files.
Agreed.  But that doesn't mean you should penalise the people who
do know it, of course :-)

Liam

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