El jue, 13-05-2004 a las 06:20, Martin Ebourne escribió: > > However, the spatial nautilus leaves a gaping hole: file management is now > more intuitive up until the point you want to start editing files. Then it's > 'File open', 'File save', and straight back into the old browser > model. I can understand why so many people are complaining about the spatial > nautilus - we've now got two different file management concepts on the > desktop, and they don't mix well at all. A solution that on ideal conditions would work amazingly well, is to have the FileOpen command open a new Nautilus window. That's about as easy as it gets. The problem is that the MIME associations have to be perfectly well or this wouldn't work. > > Currently the only way to save a file to a new location is through the 'Save > as' browser. The good thing about going spatial with this is that it not > only fits in with nautilus better but also dramatically simplifies the user > interface. All we need to do is replace all of the browser furniture with a > single icon; to save the file the user just drags the icon to where they want > it. This completely models nautilus where when you drag a file from one > window to another it moves/copies it. Except for keyboard people. > > I've mocked up a couple of save windows for an imaginary text editor, just as > an example. This one is the most basic save - the application only saves > files of one type. All you need to enter is the leaf name of the file, and > then drag the icon to where you want to place the file. > > http://www.ebourne.me.uk/bits/gnome/saveas.png > > This one has an extra option whereby you can control the type of the file > saved: > > http://www.ebourne.me.uk/bits/gnome/saveas-type.png > > For a given task people tend to work in a particular directory and it is so > much easier and faster to drag the file to the probably already open > nautilus window than keep browsing to the same directory in each application > you want to save in. > > Comments on this would be appreciated, and if people like it then I guess > discussing implementation is next. And just for the record, this concept > has been implemented before with a spatial browser and it really does work. I do not doubt it, but I'd like to see examples of this =) > > Cheers, > > Martin. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-devel-list mailing list > gnome-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) GPG key ID: 0xC1033CAD at keyserver.net
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