Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 15:07 +0000 schrieb Alan Horkan: > I'm quite interested how the properties dialog in nautilus looks so > different from the properties dialog for a shortcut (launcher). We're trying to merge them and somebody known as "yeknom" on the IRC channel (anybody?) worked on this. I'm not sure what the current status on his or her efforts are. > > === Permissions: chmod a+r === > > Please make sure the permissions are labelled > Owner > Group > All Others (Any others?) > (...) Sounds like a good idea. I'd also like to point out that I made some experiemts in my blog [1,2] and not everybody seems to like them. I'm still convinced that a simple mode that hides away details and an advanced mode which is a chmod GUI (maybe just an entry, with some tooltips?), which might also provide the symbolic and octal representation of the permissions is the way to go. Some guys just know what they're doing and others don't, let's satisfy both. > Tough problem to solve, especially since many people will have opinions on > it. I would urge the developers to test new designs as best they can > before committing to a new design (on ordinary as well as heavy users). I urge everybody to play with the permissions patches [3] I provided! Unfortunately, developers tend to write first and then start to think about a GUI, and not many usability people test code apart from stable releases, probably because using CVS, patch, and the whole toolchain forms a barrier for many people, also when considering the constant lack of time virtually everybody of us suffers from. Part of the problem really is that we can't easily separate out the mockups from the codebase without investing roughly as much time as writing the original code took. In this very specific context, I'm willing to provide standalone binaries so that you can play around with them, but I think one can't get a feeling for the issue without testing the actual product in general. [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/view/cneumair/2005/12/26/0 [2] http://blogs.gnome.org/view/cneumair/2005/12/28/0 [3] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44767#c32 -- Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
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