Dear All, I have a few suggestions I would like to raise that would possibly make GNOME more usable.
1. Currently, the MOTD (Message of the Day) is not displayed upon logging into GNOME. As Linux purports to be a networked, multi-user system, this needs to be amended. A function for root to turn this on and off as required would be great. 2. I really like the spatial navigation mode of Nautilus and strongly feel that this should remain the default. However, I am aware of the controversy this has generated. For those preferring file browser mode, has a Mac OS X style "column" view been considered, whereby, when navigating the directory structure, each subdirectory "spills out" into the next column to the left, pushing the oldest column off screen? I am sorry that I cannot describe this more clearly but I am sure that those familiar with OS X will know what I mean. 3. You may find this suggestion a little controversial but can I suggest that, whilst we retain Nautilus for file navigation, a second tool for advanced file manipulation also be built. I envisage that Nautilus would still be used by the majority of people the majority of the time for all of the functions it is currently needed for. However, on occasions a more powerful form of file manipulation tool may be needed, for such tasks as quickly renaming all of the files in a directory to a specific syntactical pattern, generating HTML image galleries (as Konqueror can currently do), printing directory listings in various forms (as BASH can currently do with the ls command) and so on. My thinking is that by incorporating a power tool for automatic MANIPULATION of large numbers of files to perform various "advanced functions" the simple elegance of Nautilus as a spatial file BROWSER would not be compromised. 4. One feature I find extremely useful in Konqueror as a web browser is the spell-checker for online forms. This vastly improves usability for poor typists like myself. I would like to strongly advocate such a function be added to the Epiphany browser. Those are my thoughts. My apologies if any of these have already been raised in the past. I would love to receive constructive criticism on these ideas. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
