Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from, the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

[Jacob Beauregard <deadowlsurvivor gmail com>]

Apologies, I actually restarted my message last time so I didn't cut out 
the subject header to put in the subject header. Sending this out so 
there's an appropriate subject heading.

Please respond to this rather than Re: [Usability] Usability Digest, Vol 
65, Issue 4 to keep the subject heading applicable.

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> Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:58:19 -0400
> From: Jacob Beauregard <deadowlsurvivor gmail com>
> To: usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Usability Digest, Vol 65, Issue 4
> Message-ID: <4AA573EB 7010205 gmail com>
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> Claes, I disagree. I would think to make that the default action. 
> However, it would be good to be able to disable it.
>
> Initially I wasn't going to comment because I don't use the recent files 
> list, but then I thought of some ways it could be improved.
>
> The recent documents list, unfortunately, is completely useless to me. 
> It is filled with temporary files that are no longer on my computer. It 
> would be an improvement to filter out temp files. It would also be 
> useful to get recent documents on a per application basis using file 
> extensions (at least by assertion) that can be opened by that particular 
> application.
>
> My recent documents list:
>
> 1. A temp midi from archive.org
> 2-3. temp PDFs downloaded from Google search results.
> 4. A temp PDF generated by a script I wrote and was debugging.
> 5. Different temp copy of the first midi (1).
> 6-8. Three different temp downloads of the same javascript library.
> 9. SVN file I modified for a project.
> 10. Other file whose contents I added to the former (9).
>
> Not useful in the least.
>
> usability-request gnome org wrote:
>   
> > Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:16:18 +0200
> > From: Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>
> > To: usability gnome org, xdg freedesktop org
> > Subject: Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from
> > 	the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5
> > Message-ID: <1252271778 7237 67 camel localhost>
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> >
> > On di, 2009-09-01 at 21:21 +0200, Claes H wrote:
> >
> >   
> >     
> > > I would like to add to this a shared state / history between open /
> > > save dialogs to make it easer to open in one application that was just
> > > saved in another application.
> > >     
> > >       
> > I don't think something special is needed for this actually. Apps that
> > do a Save action should simply make sure they add the saved document to
> > the Recently used file list. (Maybe this could be promoted to a Gnome
> > Goal?)
> >
> > regards,
> >
> >  
> >