Hi fellow Ubuntians (for want of a better word), I've been thinking a bit about a little problem I ran into with the "Save As" dialogue earlier today. The dialogue offers the possibility to enter path names into the name field, thereby using the path you enter there to save your file. Of course, this assumes you know your way around your system and know how to use paths.
So on one hand we have the user who is used to Ubuntu, and really just wants to get that file saved and do it quickly, by entering the path in a second and hitting return. On the other, we have the newcomer who saves her proposal about 24/7 service in her branch as 24/7.odt and gets really confused about the error she gets, namely: error accessing 'file:///home/branch-manager/Desktop/24': File not found In addition to that, saving a file with an invalid relative path actually allows it to be passed on to the program that does the saving, and often yields unexpected results. For example, try saving a web page as "." or ".." in Firefox. More likely than not, you will get one or more unexpected errors, the number of which dependant upon the site you are saving and the location you selected at which to save. This makes me wonder if somehow the system could handle exceptions in a way that the user understands, yet allowing for fast navigation between the folders of the system. My first impression tells me that one will have to prevail at the cost of the other but a wise user, Keybuk, in #ubuntu-devel that directed me to this mailing list aptly pointed out that "a problem shared is a problem solved." Lastly, I would like to mention that I'm new to the developer community (in fact this is my first development-related post, so I'm just out of lurking) but I'm really impressed about the way this community works through communication. Regards, Friðrik Már
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