Re: [Usability] Additions to nautilus-cd-burner's interface

[Corey Burger <corey burger gmail com>]

On 5/12/05, Kirk Bridger <kbridger shaw ca> wrote:
> I'm using Gnome 2.8, but I had some comments on this too.
> 
> Right now, I find that the interface for burning lacks a lot of details,
> such as those listed by Corey.  How much space is left on my disk?  Is
> the disk even detected?  How much space do the current files need?
> 
> Right now, I click burn and am told the disk size needed is 1.7 GB.  So
> I cancel, remove a few folders, and click burn again.  1.2 GB.  Repeat
> until I get it below 700 MB (assuming the inserted disk is empty, which
> as far as I can tell there's no way of knowing if it is or not until I
> start to burn).  This is obviously a less than pefect way of trying to
> fit files onto a CD.
> 
> How about we use the information panel of Nautilus to show us the info
> of the inserted media (a basic display, with detailed media inspection
> available via a drop-down widget), along with the details of the
> 'project' or the size of the contents in the burn:// folder.
> 
> This provides an easy way for users to see the details of inserted media
> as well as the requirements for their current burn:// folder.  Perhaps
> we could have this info panel auto-display when the burn:// folder is
> opened?
> 
> I'm not sure about introducing another toolbar ... do you mean the
> status bar of Nautilus, or another Gnome toolbar?  I'm not clear on what
> you're proposing.
> 
> Kirk
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 15:59 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> > I was looking recently at a number of different burning apps, and
> > realized how shit most of them are. However, some have good gui
> > concepts. I thus burned the idea down a simple bottom taskbar, with
> > the following three items:
> >
> > 1. A "burn" button
> > 2. An amount of disk space used of total
> > 3. Type of disk
> >
> > I have filed a bug about this, but it is wontfix until we can decide
> > on something, so that a patch can be implemented.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Corey
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The simplest way I can explain it is this image of serpentine:
http://s1x.homelinux.net/files/main.png

Basically, move the burn button to the bottom bar, and lose the top one.

Corey