Nautilus again
Posted Dec 30, 2005 17:01 UTC (Fri) by
hingo (guest, #14792)
Parent article:
An Evening with Jeff Waugh (Linux Journal)
I actually thought the other thing Mark was voted down on is even funnier
than the naked lady:
The other time Mark was overruled by the community involved the
Nautilus file manager program. When you clicked on a folder in Nautilus, a
new window would pop up on the screen. People complained about how the
screens would become full of windows. Mark thought it would be a great
idea that when one window opened the previous window would close. This
feature, at Mark's insistence, was shipped but caused an even greater
number of complaints, as users wanted to know why the Nautilus window
seemed to dance all over the screen.
Nerds are great people, but sometimes I just have to smile a little.
The ability to completely loose touch with reality is not a trait
exclusively reserved for Gnome hackers, but the Nautilus spatial file
manager certainly was a good example. Here's an idea. Let's force users to
open lots of windows even if they don't want to. Then when they complain,
we'll "fix" this by opening one window and closing another. Then we'll
remember to complain every now and then that that other desktop is bloated
with unnecessary features.
Sorry, I know this is a sore topic, but it's just so funny. As developers
it's important to always remind oneself, if the users are happy with
something, don't break their program just because you don't have anything
important to do. If something wasn't a good idea, just accept the fact and
drop it, don't start "fixing" a bad idea. Keep It Simple and all that...
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