Re: [Usability] Okay - Usability Problems

[Steeve McCauley <steeve oneguycoding com>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:30:34PM +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 11:40 -0300, Andr?? Lelis Gon??alves wrote:
> 
> > If the Gimp window is in front of the nautilus window, when i click on
> > the file that i want to open and try to drag to open it, the gimp
> > window losses focus, disappear and I can't drag and drop my file. 
> 
> These bugs seem to cover this one:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112308
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80984
> 
> > 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.
> 
> In the past when we've had this discussion, most of those functions were
> deemed irrelevant to the task at hand when you're opening or saving a
> file.

So what about those functions when they are relevant?  There has been
more than once in the past few months where I've been in an Open/Save
file dialog and attempted to right click on a file to get more
information about it, change permissions, rename, ... whatever one
might want to do in nautilus.  This usually results in an eye roll
and/or bad language.  Invariably I end up then having to
open a nautilus window ... wait ... wait ... wait ... make my way to
that file and do what I wanted to do anyway (or, more often I open
gnome-terminal and do it from the command line, but that is a luxury
that most new users do not have).  I'm sorry, but from a usability
point of view, this is not a good example of usability, especially
for functionality that is inherent in the api.

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