PATCH: Bug 82107, Turn off nautilus sidebar and location bar by default



This patch turns off the location bar and sidebar by default.CCing
usability list on this to get there opinions as well. Below are some of
my comments from the bug.

dave

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IMHO, the default nautilus look is to cluttered and can be confusing to
users.

1) The location bar should be off by default.
   First, the location bar is a feature that is used by fairly advance
users.  Since it requires knowledge of the layout of the unix filesystem
to be of any use. To a user new to unix, being able to enter in a
location doesn't mean anything if they aren't familiar with the unix
directory system.
  Which leads to my second point, though more thorough user testing is
needed, I suspect that for the vast majority of new users (particularly
windows converts) the presence of the location bar strongly suggests
that nautilus can be used as a web browser (I've actually experienced
this in practive). Currently the consensus seems to be that nautilus
will be primarily a file manager and that galeon will be the gnome web
browser. Based on this consensus, I think it is important to visually
distinguish nautilus to avoid the misconception that nautilus is a web
browser. (note yes nautilus can be used as a web browser with galeon
view, however it really does not have the features of a full fledge web
browser and probably shouldn't)

2) The sidebar should be off by default
   The sidebar takes up an enormous amount of screen space( about 1/5 of
the nautilus window) while providing little to no general user benefit.
The default tabs, notes and history, are not commonly used enough to
justify using up the such a large portion of screen space.
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Index: ChangeLog
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RCS file: /cvs/gnome/nautilus/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.5500
diff -p -u -r1.5500 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog	30 Aug 2002 19:03:43 -0000	1.5500
+++ ChangeLog	31 Aug 2002 17:50:45 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2002-08-31  David Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>
+
+	* libnautilus-private/nautilus-global-preferences.c
+	* libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas
+	Turn off the sidepane and location bar by default. Makes 
+	the default UI cleaner looking (bug 82107).
+
 2002-08-30  Alexander Larsson  <alexl redhat com>
 
 	Branched off Gnome 2.0.x development on the gnome-2-0 branch.
Index: libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas
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RCS file: /cvs/gnome/nautilus/libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -p -u -r1.9 apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas
--- libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas	23 Aug 2002 14:23:14 -0000	1.9
+++ libnautilus-private/apps_nautilus_preferences.schemas	31 Aug 2002 17:50:51 -0000
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@
       <applyto>/apps/nautilus/preferences/start_with_location_bar</applyto>
       <owner>nautilus</owner>
       <type>bool</type>
-      <default>true</default>
+      <default>false</default>
       <locale name="C">
          <short>Show  location bar in new windows</short>
          <long>
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@
       <applyto>/apps/nautilus/preferences/start_with_sidebar</applyto>
       <owner>nautilus</owner>
       <type>bool</type>
-      <default>true</default>
+      <default>false</default>
       <locale name="C">
          <short>Show side bar in new windows</short>
          <long>
Index: libnautilus-private/nautilus-global-preferences.c
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RCS file: /cvs/gnome/nautilus/libnautilus-private/nautilus-global-preferences.c,v
retrieving revision 1.204
diff -p -u -r1.204 nautilus-global-preferences.c
--- libnautilus-private/nautilus-global-preferences.c	9 Jul 2002 20:57:12 -0000	1.204
+++ libnautilus-private/nautilus-global-preferences.c	31 Aug 2002 17:50:53 -0000
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ static const PreferenceDefault preferenc
 	},
 	{ NAUTILUS_PREFERENCES_START_WITH_LOCATION_BAR,
 	  PREFERENCE_BOOLEAN,
-	  GINT_TO_POINTER (TRUE)
+	  GINT_TO_POINTER (FALSE)
 	},
 	{ NAUTILUS_PREFERENCES_START_WITH_STATUS_BAR,
 	  PREFERENCE_BOOLEAN,
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static const PreferenceDefault preferenc
 	},
 	{ NAUTILUS_PREFERENCES_START_WITH_SIDEBAR,
 	  PREFERENCE_BOOLEAN,
-	  GINT_TO_POINTER (TRUE)
+	  GINT_TO_POINTER (FALSE)
 	},
 	{ NAUTILUS_PREFERENCES_TREE_SHOW_ONLY_DIRECTORIES,
 	  PREFERENCE_BOOLEAN,


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