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Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica)Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica)Posted Sep 12, 2008 11:03 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica) by njs Parent article: Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica) A better filepicker is an improvement, but not as good as getting rid of the filepicker altogether. In my view they're a prime example of user interface cruft. There is already a file browser available (hopefully a good one, that gives you a good 'spatial' feel of 'this file goes here, and that one goes there') and it should be used to select files for opening and closing too. ROX gets this right - look for 'drag and drop saving'. It is a shame GNOME and KDE are still perpetuating the idea that each app needs to have its own little box for choosing files, which is a legacy of single-tasking days.
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Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica) Posted Sep 12, 2008 11:24 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
ROX looks very nice, and I've always liked the NeXt/MacOS idea of appfolders. How do they manage though, with things like file type associations if they use zero install-type installation? And things like the "You have inserted a DVD, what would you like to do with it?" dialogue box? Or in general, things where one application has to be aware of other installed applications?
Drag and Drop Posted Sep 12, 2008 13:57 UTC (Fri) by grantingram (guest, #18390) [Link] The problem with Drag and Drop is that it is somewhat poorly implemented, though I do remember the sheer beauty of a consistent visual interface with the old Acorn Risc OS with great fondness. For example I've just tried dragging e-mails, firefox tabs and pdfs between applications and the filemanager. The end result was I had to do a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to get the X server unstuck... This sort of thing encourages me to keep using the file selectors. Which I agree is quite annoying at times when you are trying to save lots of documents to the same place from different programs.
Drag and Drop Posted Sep 12, 2008 14:15 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
Actually, another problem with it (usability!) is that it is not accessible to people who can't use a mouse, so you need to have (at least) a keyboard fallback anyway.
Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica) Posted Dec 17, 2008 8:43 UTC (Wed) by mfedyk (subscriber, #55303) [Link]
I hope it is nothing like Spacial Gnome.
If there is anything that makes Ubuntu popular it is that small tweaks have been made like not defaulting to Spacial Gnome.
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