Mind you i am _not_ a developer and i can only speak for myself. > IMO, that way you don't care about advanced users. > Advanced users are forced to use GNOME as non-professionals or even > beginners. Have you every tried to count all (unnecessary) clicks you have > to do in GNOME to do simple task? It's annoying just like in Microsoft > Windows.
Agreed. But people often don't use basic functionality incorporated in current version of gnome - like this stuff with typing path in file open dialog (i didn't know it either until recently). > A few months ago I tried to convince Nautilus (which is one of the most > important component of GNOME) developers to take a look at two panel file > manager like Total Commander (http://www.ghisler.com) or even Midnight > Commander and try to implement similar functionality to Nautilus. I'd > imagine Nautilus provides two ways of usage: Windows Explorer-like and > two-panes Commander-like way. > > And? > They (Nautilus Dev Team) said Windows Explorer-like manager is a modern > and usable manager and if I don't like it I can use MC or something else. > Simply, I don't get it! > > MC or TC are powerful and provide users with extremely fast way to > accomplish all tasks, and no discussion about it. I don't exactly understand. So why is it you can't use MC ? If there is a tool, and versatile one (accessible in CLI), then why not just use it ? There is at least one more alternative: tuxcmd. It has the basic functionality one would expect from TC-like app. > The way GNOME is following seems to be Microsoft's way whose designers > even got rid of usable console. Better hardly usable console, than non at all :) . One think that comes to my mind is that Nautilus is primirily used with the icon view. And icons occupy substantial amount of space. And don't forget you have a side pane. If you made a mirror image of this window within the same horizontal resolution, the effect would be probably not desirable. I don't think there is a simple method of extending nautilus functionality to that of MC. And i'm not sure if it was any good doing so. Use tuxcmd, MC or write your own app. :) Kind Regards. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
