Re: File open dialog: Where is my tab extension
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:09:35PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:15:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Bastien, and who are you to decree what our users will use or not ?
>
> I have long since acknowledged that any real sanity and innovation is
> coming from the GNOME people and *not* Debian. We just package up their
> stuff and make sure the underlying kernel and GNU userland work. So I
> believe your remarks here are quite off the limit.
The new gnome way means that we are not supposed to use deep directory
structures, and that we should not use tab completition.
The real point is that in order to gain the whole lot of windows
switcher users as well as all those new corporate users, but clearly
discards those technical users which where our traditional user base.
You know, those who are not power users, but not stupid enough not to
understand how to do tab completition.
And this flurry of Ctr-xxx maddening stuff is a bit strange from a user
interface which is supposed to be graphical and using a mouse ?
Again, i don't think my remarks are off-limit, since it is clear that
the gnome people are trying to level by the bottom the smartness of
gnome. And i believe that this doesn't fit the debian user base.
> I mean, geez, take a look at
> http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/talk/main-menu-gtk.png
> and think again, will you?
Well, this is d-i with a few gtk stuff instead of text based ones. I
have some doubts about what that really brings though, and i do believe
that a graphical installer would be better suited on top of SDL over
fbdev or DirectFB or something such, with true graphical thingies,
nothing in anyway similart to what you showed me above.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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