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GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition
GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition
Posted Dec 14, 2005 5:17 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)In reply to: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition by cventers
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition
In my opinion, Gnome shouldn't even have a file picker. Saving a document should just ask for a name and drop it in a default location. After that you can put it somewhere different with Nautilus. Opening a document shouldn't even get a dialog: open it from Nautilus or drag and drop it.
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GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition
Posted Dec 14, 2005 11:45 UTC (Wed) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624) [Link]
Gah, do that and I'll give up helping the folks I know who use GNOME getthemselves out of trouble!
GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition
Posted Dec 14, 2005 13:58 UTC (Wed) by mauvaisours (subscriber, #6130) [Link]
Have you learned about this useful little thing called "Folders" that helps you organize what you do ?
GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition
Posted Dec 15, 2005 22:25 UTC (Thu) by emj (guest, #14307) [Link]
Well you are right in one sense, what should a user do in the root? You really should have everything in your home directory, perhaps in the "my Documents" folder. Or even better let people "tag" their files, and make it a database.
On bigger multiuser system it's even worse, have you ever tried to find the account of your friend John in the local /afs.. "Now was is /afs/fnord.se/homes/h/dk/sf/u2313n23? I can't really remmeber... "