Re: [Fwd: Re: commit: AbiWord is now a Nautilus View.]

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 12:51, Eugene O'Connor wrote:

> I agree with Alex and Dave that it is not good idea to enable users to
> edit documents through Nautilus. I think it would be very confusing for
> users who are used to opening an application to edit a file.

A related problem here is that it kind of *looks* like you can edit text
files etc. as they currently appear in views, even though you can't. The
usability test on GNOME 1.2 flagged this up a couple of years ago with
the suggestion that read-only document views should look more like
Acrobat Reader or something like that:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/ut1_report/file_management.html

(See "Nautilus Viewer Mode" about 2/3 of the way down the page).

Cheeri,
Calum.

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