Great application everyone, I made a number of textual refinements to the GSOC text, hopefully beneficial! Someone with edit capability could pull them in the text (if the GSOC-related people agree).
I haven't gone through the ideas yet. I will try to do it tonight and work on a "snapshots/time-machine" section as well (and RFC!). Good luck! Nikos On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > OK, I have an idea that's been collecting the metaphorical dust for many a > month. > > In a nutshell, the current "Open or Save?" dialogs in web browsers that they > show when encountering a non-web file are terrible; how can I choose if I > want to keep the file before I even see it? And why the hell can't I keep > the file without re-downloading it? > > The proper UX would be to open all files that are not web pages in a > dedicated viewer, and the dedicated viewer should then allow to save the > file for later after you see the contents and possibly edit it. > This should apply even if the browser sort of supports this file type, e.g. > for images - web browsers make for terrible image viewers! > > AFAIR the basic idea got the green light from Dan, I believe he will reply > to this thread if he has anything to add :) > I think had a slightly more complete writeup here: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kfI-JB80egEmix0HIJkDkDtMHGF_xeQMqQANqIxxnlo/edit > > This sounds like a trivial feature, but it would make worlds of difference > and it is not trivial to implement because you need a FreeDesktop.org-vetted > protocol for signalling "show the save button" from browser to apps, you > need support for this workflow in both web browser and apps, you need to > handle legacy apps and be able to tell which are which, you need the "keep > this file" action to be extensible and system-defined so that we could do > things like keeping all viewed files for a week without altering the apps, > and a metric ton of other details. > > -- > Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
