On May 10, 2007, at 6:01 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:56:12PM +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > ... >> I agree (although it needn't make things harder either); I just >> suggested it because our file dialog is too cluttered already to >> allow a permanent, separate search box like OSX has. > > Cluttered ... I thought about removing the Places header, but it shows > the P mnemonic. I wanted to (again) remove the Add and Delete buttons, > but they too show mnemonis ... But now I wonder: How about not showing > the Add/Delete buttons initially. Show Delete if a Places item is > selected, show Add if a folder is selected?
I think the whole Places shebang is taking up more room than it deserves, and that it should become a menubutton. > ... > The results do belong to different categories and the user should not > be left wondering why something is in the results. There could be > files with the same name, but from different folders. What would you > do in the last case, with OSX? > ... I don't know what OS X does for that, but if it was an important problem, you could add a column to the results showing the folder that each result was found in. Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
