On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 20:16 -0500, Michael Favia wrote: > David Zeuthen wrote: > > >Well, we just had a discussion on cameras and Nautilus (well, GNOME VFS > >actually) over on utopia-list@xxxxxxxxx the other day and the consensus > >was that you should only use Nautilus for browsing device whose primary > >and maybe secondary use was random files. > > > >Thus, for cameras and photos you should use a dedicated photo management > >tool sort of like gThumb that of course should start automatically when > >plugging in a digital camera. > > > >Cheers, > >David > > > > > > > I think i might misunderstand your evaluation but I disagree with this > assessment as i understand it (which is possible because wording these > things can be a bit tricky). I think that Nautilus should be a > comprehensive file browser for file systems of any type regardless of > the content percentage. However to increase responsiveness and slim down > the codebase the operational capacity of nautilus should be limited with > respect to any individual file type (e.g. display thumbnails and basic > exif of images but dont enable color balancing). Such "deep" operations > should be reserved for the niche applications that provide an integrated > environment for making such changes. In short Nautilus should be the > proverbial guy who knows everything but cant really do all that much. If > depth is the "operational capacity" of an application and the surface > area is the "areas of knowledge/expertise" then nautilus should be a > very large shallow pool. And niche applications like GIMP, gThumb and > others should be small deep pools that exert their increased level of > expertise and are functionally designed with the particular filetype in > mind. > > In short nautilus should not extend itself very far into any area of > expertise (short of file operations) but instead remain a general tool > to organize, browse and make trivial changes to thoose files. Simple > nautilus should be able to change on those things that are used during > the file browsing (seems to just make sense to me). Maybe i am not clear > enough... id be happy to expand on it if youd like. Please forward this > post to anyone youd like. > Hi, The idea was not to remove ability to browse your photos from Nautilus, only to not show a camera icon in computer:/// when a camera is connected to the system. So, you'd use a dedicated photo management tool to transfer photos from the camera to a folder. Later on, no one is stopping you from browsing that folder with Nautilus, I think even the Nautilus maintainers would encourage that ;-). But it's probably better to discuss this upstream; FWIW a link to the thread is here http://mail.gnome.org/archives/utopia-list/2004-July/msg00030.html Cheers, David
