[Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread Jonathan Meek
Someone asked me to get some info to them about Nautilus' menu when right clicking an image file, this is what I was confronted with: Open with Image Viewer --- Open With --- Cut Copy --- Make Link Rename... Copy

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread cmaglothin
A couple points I would like to raise. First, if we do end up keeping the Open with [default application] and Open With, the former should just be shortened to Open. I am not arguing for retaining it, just saying that this should be a change if it is retained. Second, I would like to argue for

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread Andrea Corbellini
Hello, Thank you for your analysis. Here is some feedback from myself, I hope you'll find it useful. On 24/06/12 09:35, Jonathan Meek wrote: *Open with [default program here]/Open With Why do we have these two items? If the user wants to launch with the default program they can just launch

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread Matt Richardson
What about combining some items to condense the menu without losing functionality: Open with Image Viewer --- Move Copy --- Make Link Rename... --- Move to Trash... --- Resize

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
I think too that the context menu needs to be redesigned. Another thing that I think is missing are *content aware actions* for the most common use cases - therefore I like the idea of the 'Further Action' menu http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24505/. *We have the year 2012 an it should be

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread Stuart Langridge
On 24/06/12 08:35, Jonathan Meek wrote: *Resize Icon/Restore Icon's Original Size [DESKTOP ONLY] Why do these even exist? Nautilus' desktop is already unruly enough without having this absolutely useless feature. How many people actually resize any icons on their desktop? Merely as a data

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread John
Apologies first time I set this was fromo my phone and it went to just one person.. On 24/06/2012 11:50, jakewc2 wrote: Rather get rif of everything why not have a system where its intuitive of the user. What he uses most stays in view what he uses least gets moved into a drop down

Re: [Unity-design] Any thought about the new gnome 3.6 UI?

2012-06-24 Thread pjssi...@gmail.com
Hi, As I said before I don't like the new spatial memory idea. It may work if the computer is used and administered by a single person. But it is clearly a bad idea if the computer is shared or administered by another person. The whole idea is that the system starts without any applications at

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread Gregory Merchan
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Andrea Corbellini corbellini.and...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Thank you for your analysis. Here is some feedback from myself, I hope you'll find it useful. On 24/06/12 09:35, Jonathan Meek wrote: *Open with [default program here]/Open With Why do we have

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 24 June 2012 03:35, Jonathan Meek shrouded.cl...@gmail.com wrote: Someone asked me to get some info to them about Nautilus' menu when right clicking an image file, this is what I was confronted with: Could you please send your proposal to the Nautilus developers?

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread cmaglothin
Yes, changing all of ones icons one at a time seems quite tedious. This is probably best left to a control panel or something of the like. Although, OS X does have something similar in it's right click menu. Something called Show View Options, which can change how files are displayed on a per

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread Gregory Merchan
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Jonathan Meek shrouded.cl...@gmail.com wrote: The reason for not having Open with Image Viewer in a single line: Users may want to click this item and having an action also being a sub-menu is contrary to EVERY single other sub-menu. Open with Image Viewer