On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 13:38 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > The "My" prefix to things is annoying, but I can see how it would > alleviate some confusion to users who are migrating from Windows, > to our lovely desktop. I still hate it now though.
On MS Windows there's no clear concept of "login directory". On Unix-like systems we have a user's home directory, which, in the Windows UI tradition could be called "My Stuff". Since everything under ~user is My *, I don't think we need the My on subfolders. > I would be fine with ~/Documents, ~/Movies, and whatnot. What I wouldn't > be fine with is having a "Desktop" directory, on my desktop, which is my > $HOME. Same here, although I actually turn the desktop off most of the time, originally for significant performance and laptop battery reasons. > I think we should worry about solving it for the entire desktop, not > just our desktop. +1 > "Document based" is a rather generic term, which often ends up confusing > people into thinking everything should be a document. Strictly speaking GNOME is Object based, which is why it's GNOME and not GNDME :-) > . It needs a lot more thought, and possibly a lot of extended user testing. Yes. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin Pictures from old books: http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/oldbooks/ IRC (chat) programs: www.ircreviews.org/clients/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
