Re: Control Center Behavior

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

IMO the ideal solution would treat .directory specified images as
emblems. Dunno if that is even remotely possible. That way they're still
obviously folders, but you can tell they're special.

-seth

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 10:01, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 15:41, bordoley msu edu wrote:
> > If this is done to the preferences: scheme shouldn't it be done to all 
> > schemes for ui consistency???
> 
> It should probably be done for a lot of the schemes in fact. I'm just
> asking if it's what Seth and the rest of the usability people want.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> > Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> said:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 13:44, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I agree with you Seth on the issues raised. We need explanations.
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 06:06, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 16:27, Mark Finlay wrote:
> > > > <snip>
> > > > > > 2. It has sepporate panes for launchers and settings which is much 
> > more
> > > > > > intuitive and eliminates confusion and disoriatation caused by the
> > > > > > nautilus version.
> > > > > 
> > > > > What in particular is confusing and disorienting about the Nautilus
> > > > > version for you? 
> > > > > 
> > > > > One problem I see with the Nautilus version is that its not immediately
> > > > > obvious which items are folders and which are actual preference pages.
> > > > > This is a serious problem. Ideally what would happen is that images for
> > > > > folders would not replace the folder icon, but would work as emblems. As
> > > > > a short term fix we should probably figure out how to disable icons for
> > > > > folders when browsing that URI in Nautilus. Folder icons may not be as
> > > > > pretty, but they're more useful.
> > > > 
> > > > This I think I know how to do, as I browsed that code yesterday.
> > > > 
> > > > in libnautilus-private/nautilus-directory-async.c in
> > > > should_look_for_dot_directory_file, remove the "preferences:" scheme
> > > > from the scheme for which it should look for a .directory. That should
> > > > fix the problem here (although I didn't test).
> > > 
> > > It tested it, and it works :)
> > > 
> > > http://hadess.net/files/shots/18-07-2002.2.jpg
> > > 
> > > Is this something I should commit ?
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > /Bastien Nocera
> > > http://hadess.net
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> -- 
> /Bastien Nocera
> http://hadess.net