Re: [Usability] Chabada's Suggestions

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:26:49 +0100, Joachim Noreiko
> wrote:
>  
> > Try to open an MP3 file in Nautilus, and you get a
> 'application could not
> > be found' message, which is unhelpful and untrue.
> > Replace that with something that says why the MP3
> can't be played.
> 
> You are assuming that people read such messages. In
> reality,
> unfortunately, they don't. 

Yes, they often don't.
But have to assume they do and plan our UI around that
assumption.
Otherwise we'd have no messages at all, and probably
no user documentation either.


		
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