On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Alexander Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:24 +0200, Lucas Rocha wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 2008/3/17, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Le lundi 17 mars 2008, à 09:57 +0100, Alexander Larsson a écrit : > > > > > > > Looks like I didn't emphasizes enough the "in some part" part of my > > > sentence :-) It doesn't completely deprecate file-roller, sure, but it > > > deprecates it for quite some use cases. It could totally replace > > > file-roller in my personal case, eg. > > > > > > What do other release team members think? > > > > I'm more concerned about the usability part of this addition. I'm sure > > if "mounting an archive" is an intuitive metaphor for the users. > > Not that Apple are gods or whatever, but this is what OSX does with e.g. > DMG files. It also maps to what you do with other kinds of things like > network mounts, so the mount concept is not entierly new to users (even > if the mounts are not normally loopback mounts, and loopback is a bit > "meta"). > > I don't think mounting an archive is something a user who have never > seen this before would think of as a possible operation, but once you've > used this feature one time I don't think its particularly hard to > understand (and if you never find this feature that is not a great > problem). However, I don't think there is a better alternative approach. > The only one I can think of is to pretend archives are directories, and > that is fraught with confusion about what is a directory and what is a > file both in the implementation and in the user interface, as well as > lifetime cycle problems. > > I'd classify this as a very useful feature for some class of users, and > not very interesting for others. For the second class just make file > roller the default action for archives, and this will never ever show up > to these users unless they look for it. If they do they can then easily > change the default handler for the archive types if they are interested > in often using this feature.
Would adding an extra location widget (like for trash:, burn: etc) on archive windows offering to open file-roller to modify the archive be helpful ? This would add a level of indirection for people wanting to use file-roller, but would make it more discoverable. Maybe it is just abusing the feature and not that useful, I'm not sure. Rached -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
