Re: [Usability] Nautilus List View as Default

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 10:32 -0430, Dokuro wrote:
> for the way it behaves with the mouse in the selecction of multiple
> files, i will go with the icon or compact view over the list since the
> information that it shoes is looked over by most people, and it does
> not leave any open space to click and drag a selection square making
> you rely on the shift and control keys.

True, that's one long-standing bug that would certainly count against it
becoming the default, I think.

This is another instance where it would be nice to be able to distribute
an instrumented version of nautilus to users during development cycles,
which could report back (with their permission, of course) which view
they were using most of the time, amongst other things.

(Although in reality, people probably use different views for different
types of folder, so in this case the raw data might not be all that
useful on its own.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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