On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:39:32PM +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > This discussion has been very interesting, but I wonder whether we're > overestimating the importance of Places for most people. The pane and > associated buttons are making the dialogs look much more complicated > than they would be otherwise.
I agree that the Places list and buttons make the dialog somewhat complicated and I could imagine it being confusing for some people (initially). I use them all the time and would assume at least others who move between several projects/interests often do so , too. A combobox might not slow down access that much, though. Anyone got statistics on that? > Perhaps we could get away with a small button for Home, a small button > for Desktop (not shown if you have home as your desktop), a small > button for Computer, and a menubutton for the other places. > _ _ _ __ > [H][D][C][Pv]_________________________ > | Add ?some folder? to Menu | > | Remove from Menu | > |----------------------------| > | # foo | > | % bar | > | @ hum | > """""""""""""""""""""""""""" > > (Replace H, D, C, and P with cute icons, of course.:-) Don't know about extra Home/Desktop/Computer buttons. If the user keeps his files inside Home, his Places will be in there, too. And his home-dir would be part of the path-bar. Computer could be another combobox, perhaps. Otherwise to be handled as part of Places like now. I don't know hoe a 'Remove from Menu' item should work. The Places combobox could have a 'Manage Places' item. I have working out how searching could fit in and better integration of keyboard based navigation on my todo-list. -- Thorsten Wilms Thorwil's Creature Illustrations: http://www.printfection.com/thorwil _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
