Jim Cornette wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Surely no one who plans on having more than
one subdirectory would voluntarily pick a file manager that leaves an
open window at every level if an alternative were presented in an
equal context during installation.
I have to agree with you on this problem. The defaults for nautilus are
insane. Also needing to set choices like text in bar vs. worthless icon
displays is getting harder to configure. The choices should be browser
mode as default and the preference screen should have more selections
vs. scrambling through gconf-editor which needs to be installed so you
can change bad (IMO) program system behavior options.
Why would a new user know/care about this instead of just going back
to whatever OS they used before when they get annoyed with nautilus
behavior?
Good point! I would think that the system was as advanced as nt4 and
think. " Turn back! You been down that road before. The bridge is still
out! "
Back in the old (<8) RH days I always had the feeling that every release
had an enormous amount of work put into 'user experience' effort,
tuning the device detection, application selection, and default settings
to make everything automatic and usable. The overall result wasn't as
good as today because the applications weren't as advanced, and trying
to support ISA bus devices was mostly hopeless, but usability seemed to
be the goal. Now from one release to the next I just see arbitrary
renaming of devices and even the distribution itself, and shuffling
things around in experimental ways. What happened to designing a good
user experience?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
