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Re: Application roles - first steps
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Stefan Urbanek |
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Re: Application roles - first steps |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:39:18 +0100 |
On 2004-02-20 13:04:38 +0100 Enrico Sersale <enrico@imago.ro> wrote:
On 2004-02-18 22:31:09 +0200 Stefan Urbanek <stefan@agentfarms.net> wrote:
<snip>
You can also add the role into inspector, if it is no problem (it should be
shown there regardles of user preferences). However, the point of adding it
directly to the viewer and enabling it by default was, that users can see
that something like roles exists. For the time being, user defaults can be
used to configure that, no need for preferences UI, if it is a problem.
Is that possible?
Yes, but I don't know if it is a good idea to show something more then the
file name in a browser column or under an icon. I think that we should always
use inspectors for these kinds of information.
Why not? Browser/icon should show information that is most relevant to the
user. It does not have to reflect implmenetation, which is filename in this
case. You do not need filename for application, you need application
function/name, which is in this case described by its role and optionaly real
name. Well, most of users do need this. And there sill will be an option for
showing filenames.
There is no point of having it only in inspector. What can be achieved by
direct role displaying is faster orientation of the user. It's like thumbnails
of images: you see what is in the image immediately without opening it.
Situation: user wants to start a web bowser. He opens /Local/Applications
folder and looks there. What he sees are many .app files with names like
Gimp.app, Mozilla.app, Gaim.app (i'm taking existing app names as examples). He
well not know, what the applications do just from those names (i'm not even
talking about non-descriptive application icons). He can try launching it and
see what it does, but that is really waste of time and resources. You suggest
looking in the inspector panel. Sure, he can do that, but he will have to
traverse through all application icons to find what he looks for. If
application role was displayed somewhere around app icon or in the browser
cell, user can immetiately spot what he is looking for.
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Stefan Urbanek
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- Application roles - first steps, Stefan Urbanek, 2004/02/16
- Re: Application roles - first steps, Enrico Sersale, 2004/02/17
- Re: Application roles - first steps, Stefan Urbanek, 2004/02/18
- Re: Application roles - first steps, Enrico Sersale, 2004/02/20
- Re: Application roles - first steps,
Stefan Urbanek <=
- Re: Application roles - first steps, Enrico Sersale, 2004/02/21
- Re: Application roles - first steps, Enrico Sersale, 2004/02/22
- Re: Application roles - first steps, Stefan Urbanek, 2004/02/22
- Re: Application roles - first steps, Enrico Sersale, 2004/02/23
- Re: Application roles - first steps, Helge Hess, 2004/02/23