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Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica)Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica)Posted Sep 13, 2008 2:27 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica) by endecotp Parent article: Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica)
> I had no idea that either of those features existed (and I'm not stupid, or a novice); they are totally hidden. There is nowhere visible that my typing will "go"; there is, to use the usability terminology, no affordance to suggest that typing a filename is an available option.
Here is probably a shocker then: It works the same way in Microsoft Windows. (Just not as well)
One big advantage is that with Microsoft Windows it only does matching on the first letter. With Gnome you get a little box that appears and you can narrow down matches; which helps a lot when your dealing with 200 shares on a corporate network and they all begin with the first three letters..
I haven't tried it in OS X, but I bet it works the same way there also.
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Another one is that Drag-n-Drop mostly works in Gnome.. as long as you stick with Gnome, or at least Gnome-aware stuff.
Ever tried to drag-n-drop a icon from Nautilus to Gnome-terminal? It's pretty clever. Even works for URLs from Epiphany.
Another shocker.
This works in OO.org 3 beta, at least. But try dragging and dropping a mp3 file from nautilus into OO.org. :)
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Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica) Posted Sep 13, 2008 8:29 UTC (Sat) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link]
> Here is probably a shocker then: It works the same way in Microsoft Windows
OK, it all makes sense then. People who are familiar with Windows will be able to use it. I don't fall into that category.
Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements (ars technica) Posted Sep 15, 2008 1:36 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
It works better then in Windows.
Theres always lots of stuff that isn't obvious about any decently complex user interface that I've seen. It's one of the ways you can strike a balance between the needs of advanced users while meeting the needs of non-experts.
You give users every option under the sun and it'll just confuse and bewilder them.
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