Re: [Usability] Some usability feedback

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 12:51 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:

> Yes this is on my wishlist too. Unfortunately we have been waiting a
> long time for medusa (which is Nautilus' search companion and its a lot
> better than the gnome-search-tool). I hope we will get something here by
> Xmas (if not I might have to implement my own thing!)

It's been suggested for years that it would be easy just to add an
Edit->Find Files menu item to nautilus that ran "gnome-search-tool
--path=<currentdir>", and swap it for the real medusa functionality when
it was ready.  Nobody seems very interested in doing that, though :/

> > - He was puzzled by spatial nautilus, especially the fact that, when you 
> > double click a folder, the parent is not closed. He did not discover 
> > middle click. 

Hmm... I never did get around to running my little experiment where the
default behaviour is reversed (shift/middle click if you want to leave
the parent folder open), to see if people found that any easier.  It
does seem to be one of the main stumbling blocks for new users.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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