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From: | Dennis Leeuw |
Subject: | Re: File Useability question |
Date: | Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:37:26 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 |
Enrico Sersale wrote:
On 2004-02-21 12:51:22 +0200 Dennis Leeuw <dleeuw@made-it.com> wrote:Just had a little discussion with my girlfriend about the GNUstep useability. And she was wondering why there was in the GWorkspace menu an entry for File -> New File without the ability to associate this file with a certain program.And I couldn't answer that question...Well, because you associate it renaming it!
Yep, I do understand that... but imagine an ignorant user. It is not intuitive. He/She creates a file and has an empty file that is of no use. Wouldn't it be nice (more useful) to ask what kind of file is meant and which program the user wants it to be associated with?
I mean what is the use of an empty file? Would be nice to have GWorkspace (or any "browser" for that matter) to have an option to create a file and link it to an application (or file type).
More or less like I can start vi with just 'vi' or I can start it like 'vi filename'. I think the user would gain in useability. Certainly since the FileViewer is the "always open app". It makes the FileViewer the access-point (starting point) to the system.
Just "brainstorming" right now. Dennis
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