Michal Rudolf wrote:
Hi!
>> As all files belonging to a db are named like the db but
>> just use different extensions, well I admit that I just
>> find it easy enough to drop them using a usual file
>> manager, that is, with the UI I use all the time to
>> manage files and similar objects.
> I still don't get it why can't we really care about users.
Michal, you're wrong here. Acutally, I always care about
users. More that you may notice. ;)
>>> Or, since he has to delete multiple files he may delete
>>> a file he wasn't supposed to delete; a human error.
>>> OTOH, if SCID takes care of removing the db for you you
>>> don't have to worry about these kinds of mistakes.
>> Don't get me wrong: I'll not hinder the implementation of
>> this stuff. I just do not see why and I'd actually just
>> remove scids file finder entirely as useless a thing ;)
> I think that is one of the reasons why Open Source
> applications so often fail. Whether we like it or now, it
> s more important to make it is easy for average user than
> to make in clean and/or really powerful for advanced
> users.
I'd second that. I do not second the though, that any
application should take care on its own about life, earth
and everything. Actually, I find this pretty userunfriendly
as you have to learn everything for every app again and
again.
> And I find File Finder useful, mostly because Tcl file
> dialog is so user-unfriendly.
Well, it takes about half a minute to fill in and then I get
a pretty unstructured list. Anyway, I do not need to like
it as I do not need to use it ;)
>> It would actually be really a feature I'd like to have in
>> Scid: drop a file on Scid to get rid of "File/Open..." as
>> well.
> Do you think all the features you don't use should be
> removed from Scid?
No.
I just feel adding Drag&Drop (if this is possible in TCL at
all) would be much more usefull compared to an not even
second class file manager.
Think about the ability to click on a PGN file from within
your normal file manager and it fires up in Scid, opens
there if scid is already running or starts Scid if not. (The
second part is easily done, the first AFAIK no possible
now.)
I think that the main point to get things easy for the user
is to integrate with the stuff that the user already uses.
Instead of building a file manager I'd think it is much more
usefull to reuse the existing one and integrate with that.
Thats all.
In any case: one could add a delete function to the
finder.tcl. It should be straight forward, if there is any
volunteer?
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