Re: [Usability] Okay - Usability Problems

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 09:14 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote:
> 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.

Where would they have gained this expectation?  No other (major) desktop
I can think of uses the file manager for open/save operations.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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