[OT] Gnome usability [Was: adding desktop files to misc packages]
[Sorry for beeing OT - it will be my only contribution to this thread]
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 13:33 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
I found (at least one) counter example: I never managed to get rid
of the stupid nautilus behavour to open new windows.
Edit -> Preferences -> Behaviour -> Always open in navigation windows
If the option name isn't clear enough, feel free to propose an alternate
wording; there's definitely room for improvement here.
Well, there is no doubt that there is anywhere in the n-th hierarchy
of option settings menu the option I'm looking for is hidden. It is
just the question whether I'm willing to spend my time to seek for
it and I have to admit - I'm not. This is no particular Gnome feature -
I even prefer Gnome over KDE for the same reason.
> the GNOME usability philosophy caters for novice users *at the
> expense of experienced users*.
This widespread belief is entirely untrue.
My mail was about telling you that the quote above is _not_ _entirely_
_untrue_ because I would consider myself an experienced user and I
told you only one problem I have to safe the time of the readers of
this list.
I was even not
able to get rid of this nautilus thingy at all because killing it opens
a new one.
This is intentional, nautilus is a fundamental piece of the desktop. You
can remove it by editing the session, still.
Sure there is such an option - but it is just deeply hidden.
So the proposition was disproved by a counter example and thus is not true.
This is because of wrong assertions on your side: that you need nautilus
not to run, for example.
Well, it is the usual way what I'm doing with every program that does
not what I want it to do.
My mail was rather not about criticising Gnome (or KDE). It was about
ignorance of developers who just refuse to hear at their potential
users and just ignore problems they do not like. If I would hear
wide spread rumors about the program I want to make better I would
try to find out what really causes the rumor instead of telling people
who share the same idea as those "rumors" that they are just not right.
To became on-topic again: It is quite similar with the rumor that
Debian is not for newbees. While I personally don't think so I try
to listen to those people who share this idea and ask them why they are
using something else instead of telling them: You are not right.
Got the idea?
Andreas.
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