Re: Re: MIME types, again ("Nautilus" ain't the answer)

on Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:53:59AM -0500, Ian D. Stewart ([email protected]) wrote:
> ben wrote:
> 
> >The developer can't anticipate the user's needs. Make simple, solid
> >
> >tools, each of which does one thing really well, and let the user mix
> >and match as needed.
> > 
> >
> Unfortunately, many of the developers (or at least the developers who 
> have posted here; I?ll give the others the benefit of the doubt) believe 
> that not only can they anticipate the user?s needs, but they know the 
> user?s needs better than the user does.
> 
> Another user recently posted a complaint regarding loss of functionality 
> between Galeon 1.2 and Galeon 1.3.  One of the items that he identified 
> was that under Galeon 1.2, you could press ^O and be presented with a 
> dialog to enter a URL.  The developer?s response was why would you want 
> to be presented with a dialogue when you can press ^L and be taken 
> directly to the address bar. 
> 
> When the original poster stated that he preferred a dialogue box over 
> being taken to the address bar, the developer went on to berate the very 
> idea of a dialogue box.  The whole conversation came off as being very 
> patronizing.  It is that sort of attitude, rather than any technical 
> short comings which have turned me off from GNOME (and I?m sure I?m not 
> alone).

In fairness:  I think the discussion was fairly well balanced.  I even
came in on the side of "action in window" over "action in dialog".

That said:  there *are* GNOME widgets which are grossly misdesigned.


Peace.

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