Feature request: browsing filesystem in gnome "computer" menu

[George Farris]

On Thu, 2004-18-11 at 20:08 -0500, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> I think you are ignoring the discussion. Left click opens a folder in
> a
> new window, which is the default behavior. People who want to open a
> folder and automatically close the previous one, can use middle-click
> as
> a shortcut or left-click to open new window and then left-click on the
> close button in the upper right corner of the previous window.

>From Alan Coopers book:

The most basic point in all computer UI design is that the user does not
want to use your application. They want to get their work done as
quickly and easily as possible, and the application is simply a tool
aiding that. The more you can keep your application out of the way of
the user, the better. Effort spent on using your application is effort
not spent on the work the user is trying to do. Two key quotes from Alan
Cooper's second book, About Face 2.0, summarise this very well:

In it he talks about the most used button in Firefox being the back
button and it should be larger.  The same may be said about Nautilus in
that the most used feature of just opening a new window and closing the
old one should be tied to the left-click.  There should at least be an
option to allow this.  I really think that the browser window should
have a feature to allow the gtkfilebrowser sidebar to pop up for
bookmarks and filesystem access.





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George Farris   farrisg at mala.bc.ca
Network and Technical Services
Malaspina University-College