Op woensdag 28-03-2007 om 11:47 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Emmanuele Bassi: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:21 +0200, Tomasz Sterna wrote: > > > > > Users expect all the file manager functionality from the dialog, so > > > no, "users" don't expect this. and nautilus is a file *manager*, that is > > > an application to move, copy and generally view the file system; at > > > best, it could replace an *open* dialog. > > > > Oh yes, they do. > > Don't you want to be able to create a directory to place the file you're > > saving in? Or rename/or move away a file to make place for the file > > you're saving? Most users do want at least these two functionalities. > > And they want it to behave the same way as in their file manager. > > "most users"? where? do you have *any* usability study or even tests > that demonstrate the need to move/copy files when saving another file?
I have had that "need" frequently too, but if you don't want to bloat the file dialog (which I understand), I would be happy with anything that allows me to open the default "file manager" in the current directory. (One example is where you create a new directory but then you see a spelling error. Having to open Nautilus & drill down a deep directory tree isn't really productive...) > > And when these works, they expect all the other functionality of file > > manager to be there. "It looks like Nautilus, it works like Nautilus, > > but copying is broken... Why?" > > because it's *not* nautilus. it looks very different from nautilus, it > doesn't at all work like nautilus and, above all, it shouldn't work as > nautilus. the users aren't using nautilus: they are using an application > and saving a file. > > what's more important: no platform GTK+ runs on has a file dialog which > behaves like that; win32, os-x: they all have a file selector dialog > which doesn't at all work like their file manager applications. Actually, since Win98 & Win2k Microsoft embeds the same component in explorer & the file dialogs, which means that you can copy, move, rename, ... files just like in explorer. -- Jan Claeys _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list gnome-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
