On Friday 19 May 2006 12:50, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > remain intact?" and not "Will I be able to change file associations > with ease?"
Ok...so if a person calls me up and asks me, my mp3s aren't playing in windows. What should I do? ( a hypothetical file association issue ) I simply tell him to right click -> Open With -> WMP and ask him to make sure that the check box at the bottom of the Window is marked. What do I tell him in Linux? Ok open up the CLI, now enter the .gnome directory .... blah blah blah..... And he'll go like...wtf?! See the difference? See, this is one of the several examples where GNOME or rather the Linux DEs fail to be user friendly. Another excellent example would be of gaim. When you initiate chat, you can see the other persons 'avatar' ( pic ). You can optionally hide it by right click and "hide". Once hidden, there is virtually _no way_ you can get back to see it! The only way to get it back is to close the chat window and reopen it. I really would like to know whoever thought of it.... May be I am using a very old version (1.1.2) of gaim but IIRC this has been a problem since ages... May be its fixed now. But these aren't really great features that the developers 'simply forget' to incorporate. I guess I can contribute more to making these apps better but then I dont really have the necessary skill set to do it... All I can do is 'suggest' these changes. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
