I assume you're a GNOME contributor, is that correct? (:
Anyway, I'll share some bits of what I'd like to see in GNOME and comment on your proposals.
2009/1/10 Eugene Gorodinsky <e.gorodinsky@xxxxxxxxx>
I'm sorry, but I think that whole save-to-desktop problem you're talking about is kind of made up (: It's a user's choice to save whatever he wants and where he wants. Desktop folder is just another directory in my home folder, so why treating it in some special way? If I don't want my desktop to be flooded with files, I just don't put'em there in the first place. After all, all browsers have a default "save-to" directory which you can always override. And whenever you want to copy a file, there's a save-to dialogue, isn't there? Personally, I've never had anything saved to my desktop. In fact, I always turn my desktop icons off in windows, and that's an option I'd like to see in GNOME.
Wow, I've never actually seen those sound previews in action. But if they do exist, there definitely should be an option to disable that. (:
Talking about previews, what I miss most in Nautilus, is the image/pdf preview in sidebar like it's done in windows. I prefer to browse in "List View" as it's the most compact and informative. However, to preview an image, I have to either open it, or switch the directory to Icon View and then increase those icons' size. This isn't very convinient 'cause firstly, the whole look of the directory changes, and secondly, if there are in fact a lot of images (along with other files) and maybe videos, it takes time for the system to enlarge each image to the icon view. This resizing is accompanied by flickering of the folder contents, since images are resized one-by-one. In other words, switching to "List View" is also not a very good option in this case.
- One specific problem that I have currently is that a lot of time files are saved on the desktop and I have to clean up the desktop regularly.
I'm sorry, but I think that whole save-to-desktop problem you're talking about is kind of made up (: It's a user's choice to save whatever he wants and where he wants. Desktop folder is just another directory in my home folder, so why treating it in some special way? If I don't want my desktop to be flooded with files, I just don't put'em there in the first place. After all, all browsers have a default "save-to" directory which you can always override. And whenever you want to copy a file, there's a save-to dialogue, isn't there? Personally, I've never had anything saved to my desktop. In fact, I always turn my desktop icons off in windows, and that's an option I'd like to see in GNOME.
- This one is for nautilus and maybe for the open/save file dialog. Currently the previews for the music files start to play a few seconds after the mouse arrow moves over the file, it's annoying when you didn't really want to listen to that file but were looking for something or just moved the mouse accidentally
Wow, I've never actually seen those sound previews in action. But if they do exist, there definitely should be an option to disable that. (:
Talking about previews, what I miss most in Nautilus, is the image/pdf preview in sidebar like it's done in windows. I prefer to browse in "List View" as it's the most compact and informative. However, to preview an image, I have to either open it, or switch the directory to Icon View and then increase those icons' size. This isn't very convinient 'cause firstly, the whole look of the directory changes, and secondly, if there are in fact a lot of images (along with other files) and maybe videos, it takes time for the system to enlarge each image to the icon view. This resizing is accompanied by flickering of the folder contents, since images are resized one-by-one. In other words, switching to "List View" is also not a very good option in this case.
I guess, that'd be it. All my other thoughts are probably too specific and not very important as I can't recall those right now (:
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