Am Dienstag, den 03.01.2006, 13:13 +0000 schrieb Phil Bull: > Hmm, this might seem a little strange to the user (dragging an action, > 'save', into nautilus rather than a document). Maybe better to drag the > document's icon from somewhere?
http://poweroftwo.de/insaneidea.jpg I feel everybody staring at me ;-) > Normally, I won't use 1) and 2), because they were just locations I had > to go through to get to my intended destination, 3). So this drop-down > should just show the final location(s) maybe? Then after that, order and > truncate the list by most recently opened. This runs into problems when > you DO want to use 1) and 2) though. This would only be possible if users would use a file system strictly organized into nodes and leaves, but they dont. > > My idea for this conflict would be to _not_ add the list with the > > currently opened nautilus paths, _if_ there are more than 7 nautilus > > windows opened. Completly disable the feature if there would be to much > > items. > > I'm pretty sure this would confuse the hell out of everybody. 'Where's > that handy drop-down gone?' or 'why is it disabled?' etc. Not everyone > will see the '>7 nautilus windows open' logic. Why not just add the > first six items to the drop-down then have a 'More locations...' item at > the bottom. By selecting this you can pop up a full list. We allready know the problem from bookmarks in the panel menu: http://poweroftwo.de/5_bookmarks.jpg & http://poweroftwo.de/6_bookmarks.jpg I agree, removing it without substitution will let users stuck, but replacing with a link to a new menu/window is a good compromise. This way everybody will understand the >7 logic, as i understood where my bookmarks have gone when i firstly happend to have more than 5 of them 8). regards, Sven _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
