Re: [Nautilus-list] unification

[Josh Steiner <joschi eds org>]

i think the whole shifting ui thing needs some careful test case studies,
it is a bit wierd, i havn't made up my mind if i think it is crackrock or
not yet... does anyone (perhaps some of you sun or x-eazel folks) know if
there have been usability studies done on this?

 On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Jamin Philip Gray wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, David Moles wrote:
> 
> > So do the menu bars, toolbars, etc. all suddenly change when you
> > type a web address in? As a user, I'd be freaked out. It seems to
> > me like it would kind of miss the point of having my file manager
> > also do web browsing. (Maybe this needs to be on the usability
> > mailing list?)
> 
> The galeon web view is very young and doesn't do much yet...certainly
> doesn't start changing tool bars.  It's an interesting point for
> discussion, but I don't think toolbars changing freaks out users.
> IE/Explorer, MS Office are all examples like this.  If you go to a web
> address in windows explorer, suddently you're in IE.  It just works.
> If you're in Word, and click on an embedded spreadsheet, suddenly you're
> viewing the Excel editing controls.  Personally I think that's beatiful
> because it just works.  
> 
> -jamin
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 14:09, Jamin Philip Gray wrote:
> > > 
> > > I think the right way to accomplish this is through the use of components.
> > > So if you're in nautilus and you type a web address in and go to it,
> > > suddenly you're in "galeon".  Having a consistent set of toolbar themes
> > > would also be nice.  There's already a galeon web view for nautilus that is
> > > being worked on, which is a great start.  
> > > 
> > > -jamin
> > 
> > 
> 
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> remember.
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