Re: [Usability] The New File Selector

[Ryan McDougall <ryan mcdougall telusplanet net>]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 21:19 +0100, gabor wrote:
[snip]

> and when someone writes, that he misses the textfield, because he can
> work faster with that (btw. i think everyone agrees that you can find a
> file faster with a text entry + tab completion, if you're looking for a
> filename (and not a thumbnail picture)),

No one disagrees that for some users, and some file systems, text entry
is was faster than constant clicking. Just because the text entry is one
extra keystroke away doesn't mean its "bad" UI, or some stupid designer
actually thinks anything command line is evil.

> and then he gets a reply, that using the textfield is actually a broken
> UI, and he must learn something else 

I didn't say that _text_entry_ was broken, it said some designs are
broken, and the new file chooser is *one* step in the right direction.
Please don't put words in my mouth and use them to put me down. I'm not
so stupid to think that all things powerful or text-ish must go. Its a
kind of conceit to that the reason why GNOME changes something away from
what you like is because the developers have no clue what their doing.
It could be that the developers are actually right.

> (and that with stuff like medusa or storage or simias or winfs or
> whatever you won't need to browse?!??!?!?! then why is the
> gtk-file-selector here at all? and why are we improving it now, if it
> won't be use in the NEAR future),

I said *nothing* about the NEAR future. I don't know why you are drawing
such conclusions. If you would like to clarify, please let me know.

>  then it becomes a little frustrating
> 
> but maybe i am part of the  minority, because i still most of time open
> a gnome-terminal and use vim :)
> (btw. speaking of which, konsole is still 2xfaster :(
> 
> 
> i hope this text expains my feeling/thoughts,

I think you feelings and thoughts are pretty common, thats why I bother
to reply to comments like these instead of just ignoring them. Its
important that community feels like one, but as Havoc said community
doesn't imply democracy.

> 
> gabor
>