Re: [Nautilus-list] Constructive Criticism Revisted

["Matthew J. Doller" <mdoller wpi edu>]

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 22:31, James Mitchell Allmond wrote:
> I don't think either of my two nautilus UIs are confusing. In fact, they
> are just the opposite. It's clear how to access any drive. Once that
> goal is accomplished, the rest is childs play. Remember a computer
> illiterate person knows nothing of file systems. All they know is that
> they want to access their floppy or cdrom drive and put its files (like

i wrote to the list a few months ago suggesting that either
a) the tree be reworked to show devices like this ( the kde sidebar in
konqueror does this, as does windows explorer, to some extent) or 
b) the bookmarks should be moved to the sidebar, and be organized into
some sort of tree themselves.

there may be usability issues with the implementation of a), since there
would be multiple tree entries for, say, cd-roms.

at any rate, i dont see the reasoning on getting rid of the throbber for
what seems to be just for the sake of getting rid of it. replacing it
with a giant translucent gnome foot seems like adding a lot more visual
noise in exchange for no usability benefit.

screenshots of my proposed nautilus bookmarks, as well as the current
nautilus sidebar can be found at www.wpi.edu/~mdoller/nautilus/
(ignore the "Programs" section in the nautilus mockup.  i got carried
away :)

matt

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Matthew J. Doller 
mdoller wpi edu
http://www.wpi.edu/~mdoller