Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

Mark markg85 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 19:28:27 UTC 2008


On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> To the people reading the gnome usability list and see this for the
>> first time.. look here for the full discussion (about 150 posts):
>> http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=65669&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&start=0
>
> Mark, you need to re-think your strategy of cross-posting from an
> already heated discussion into a new list. You are not necessarily
> helping your cause by dragging emotionality around across lists.  If
> your is goal is to be sensationalistic, you will probably succeed.  If
> your goal is to encourage more people in the meritocracy to listen to
> you, you are probably failing.  I think you should re-think your
> approach a bit, its extremely heavy handed. All you are doing by
> keeping this current thread alive is hardening opinion, not changing
> minds.
>
>
> -jef

What do you expect of me?
I started nice and what did i get in return: "we don't vote here" and
there is no other way to get the word out.

To remember how i started:

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> The question is simple:
> Lets use the browser view of nautilus in the next fedora release.
>
> Motivation:
> A new window for each folder that i open is so painful!!
> 1. My taskbar fills up in notime each time i open a new folder
> 2. New features of nautilus: tabbed browsing! completely useless if
> your not using the browser mode
> 3. Tabbed browsing (files/folders or web) is "hot" these days
> 4. It feels so.. old (windows 95? 3.11?)
> just to name a few
>
> Cross posted to the devel list because it's for the next fedora
> version (currently in development thus the devel list)
>
> Bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477052 (wow! i
> couldn't find an existing one for this! made one myself)
>
> So, lets vote:
>
> +1 from me
>
> I hope this can be done for Fedora 11 (it's just changing one gconf value).
> All vote plz
>
> Mark.
>

I didn't start emotional.. to be honest.. i'm not emotional at all
about this issue. just a little irritated by how easy spatial got in
and how hard it is to get out.

And i seem to be on the moderation list now from gnome's usability..
that's what happens when you try to improve something with the best
intentions.




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