Firefox - why is it better?

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:38 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:15:08AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Perhaps because they genuinely were trying to create a better desktop and
> > got bits of it wrong on this attempt. People need to file bugs for the
> > cases it does badly including details (eg an strace if it is being very
> > slow may show why), and if it doesn't do the expected saying what you
> > expected to happen.
> 
> Thanks Alan. It's good to step back and look at it from that point of view.
> 
> Sometimes it's frustrating -- it feels like UI designers show up and say
> "you geeks have no idea how to make a user interface", and then redesign
> in a way which looks pretty but is far less functional.

Uhm, I think it's pretty interesting that the original complaint
revolved around something an ordinary user would never do (or at least
never should): selecting the file '/usr/bin/emacs' in the file chooser.
When you think of it, it's simply a bug in the first place that users
(even hackers) need to do something like that. File bugs.

FWIW, I'm very happy about the new GTK+ file chooser. I like the
bookmarks (I have a 'Patches', 'Downloads', 'Hacking' bookmarks that I
use all the time) and the fact that it shows my removable drives (it's
even dynamically updated). Maybe my workflow is just different (and
probably closer to the bulk of our intended user base); as a data point
you may note that I'm also using a graphical email client. Evolution :-)

However, that's not to say the issues reported shouldn't be fixed
though. File bugs.

Cheers,
David