Alexander Wagner,  niedziela, 20 lipca 2008:

>> The thing is that if the user needs to manually delete the
>> db files he is likely to not delete every file he was
>> supposed to delete.
>As all files belonging to a db are named like the db but
>just use different extensions, well I admit that I just find
>it easy enough to drop them using a usual file manager, that
>is, with the UI I use all the time to manage files and
>similar objects.
I still don't get it why can't we really care about users. There are things 
that can be done using vi, command-line or any file manager, but there are a 
lot of users that won't use such tools as they are too difficult for them.

>> Or, since he has to delete multiple files he may delete a
>> file he wasn't supposed to delete; a human error.  OTOH,
>> if SCID takes care of removing the db for you you don't
>> have to worry about these kinds of mistakes.
>Don't get me wrong: I'll not hinder the implementation of
>this stuff. I just do not see why and I'd actually just
>remove scids file finder entirely as useless a thing ;)
I think that is one of the reasons why Open Source applications so often fail. 
Whether we like it or now, it s more important to make it is easy for average 
user than to make in clean and/or really powerful for advanced users.

And I find File Finder useful, mostly because Tcl file dialog is so 
user-unfriendly. Home directory is cluttered with configuration directories 
(they are not hidden for some reason). You cannot check file date or size 
(really useful if you have a lot of PGN files, some really big).

>It would actually be really a feature I'd like to have in
>Scid: drop a file on Scid to get rid of "File/Open..." as
>well. 
Do you think all the features you don't use should be removed from Scid?

-- 
Michal Rudolf

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