Re: Two string changes for Nautilus

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Em Wed, 2012-09-12 às 16:47 -0400, Cosimo Cecchi escreveu:
> Hi Shaun,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 15:15 -0400, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> >> Hi again,
> >>
> >> I would like to ask a string freeze break request for two strings in Nautilus:
> >> - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680983 - this is about
> >> changing the "Send To..." string of the nautilus-sendto extension to
> >> "Email...". nautilus-sendto used to offer a set of options other than
> >> email, which are currently not really working correctly. In the bug
> >> there's a patch to change the extension to open the email client
> >> directly instead, and this should be mirrored in the string displayed
> >> in the UI.
> >
> > Surely gutting nautilus-sendto should get a bit more exposure
> > and discussion than just jamming it in after the freeze. Has
> > anybody looked at what other modules use nautilus-sendto to
> > share stuff?

They do, and it doesn't break that, per-se. It just restricts the target
destination to be e-mail.

> [CC-ing Bastien]
> 
> I'm sorry, I should have probably explained this a little better.
> Nobody is trying to gut nautilus-sendto, the goal is to have something
> working nicely for the use case of sending a file to somebody. As far
> as I can see, the Email option is really the only interesting one
> working correctly for nautilus-sendto at the moment, and that's where
> the patch came from.

It's not the only interesting one working correctly, but it's the only
one for which a workflow with a UI that doesn't suck was designed.

For example, the nautilus-sendto plugin in gnome-bluetooth. It works,
but it looks like crap, and even more so if you don't have any Bluetooth
targets around.

> Note that nautilus-sendto has two parts: the module itself and a
> Nautilus extension that adds the item to the context menus. Only the
> extension lives in the nautilus source tree right now; I cannot really
> answer the question about whether it's used by other modules, probably
> Bastien would know. Of course, the nautilus change doesn't make any
> sense without the corresponding change that removes the dialog in
> nautilus-sendto, so probably Bastien should send an UI freeze request
> for that first?

I wouldn't have. There would be no UI to nautilus-sendto, so it wouldn't
change the UI as much as change the workflow.

> I should also note that this is not a high priority bug for me, and
> it's also completely fine if we decide it's better to punt such a
> change to the next cycle.

In which case we'd think about how we want to implement sharing for the
other targets, and implement this properly (eg. without the legacy) in
nautilus-sendto.

Cheers