Re: [Usability] Okay - Usability Problems

["Dylan McCall" <dylanmccall gmail com>]

Hello André,

Ideally, I think the open / save dialog should be handled by the default file manager, rather than by a GTK composite widget. As it is, there are a lot of usability issues there because that composite widget will never behave like Nautilus unless it 
is Nautilus. Users expect it to be Nautilus, because in their view (and rightly so!) File Management is done by Nautilus. It would be dumb for a desktop environment to have two file managers, and that is very much what we have here. (Especially if that open/save dialog gains the power to move, copy and delete files).

Is it possible, within the existing infrastructure, to have that dialog smoothly dealt with by another program? (Something like Bonobo Controls ring a bell, but I am still trying to figure out what those are being replaced by). I'm thinking the GTK widget (within GTK) would still have to be replaced with something else, with the change being that the "something else" runs the file manager with a standard command line arg., instead of building the dialog itself, and somehow gets an output. It would be a big change, but I think it would solve about half of the problems people have with GNOME.

Bye,
-Dylan McCall

On 9/17/07, André Lelis Gonçalves <andrelelis gmail com> wrote:

Second Problem. Right button on the Open/Save Dialogs.
Right Button is very useful. The Open/Save dialogs should be able to have almost the same functionalities that the nautilus has if we open a "Local Folder" window.  Such as Open (Open with...), copy, paste.
Not just the "show hidden files" option.

Third Problem: Yet Other from Open/Save Dialogs
Okay I thing this is a bug.
When i try to open a file with the open dialog and I have the complete path of the file copied to the transfer area. I paste the  path at the open dialog and, when i press enter (of course, to open the file) it does nothing. I have to use the mouse to click the Ok button...

Fifth Problem.

The Open/Save dialog again...
The Address Bar below the folder three don't follow the folder three. I don't like it, (of course it is my opinion, but i think it would be better to all if we have the hability to copy and paste the entirely path of a file or a dir.)