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[Victor Eduardo <victor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, that video was absolutely worth watching. It proves that generic names
are better in the eyes of new users, and fit more into how elementary is
perceived.

I also agree with Sergey; the "recent files" mode makes no sense for the
save dialog in most cases.

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We really should kill off defaulting to recent files, both for open
> and save dialogs. For open dialog it's just an ugly hack to workaround
> the lack of Contractor, and for save dialog it makes absolutely no
> sense.
>
> 2012/12/10 Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Ha, yes, that's one thing I took away from that video as well. Also, I
> > noticed she hit a few bugs. Slingshot didn't close at one point, Plank
> > didn't want to remove an app from the dock, and WingPanel took two
> clicks to
> > do anything at the end.
> >
> > I really like videos like this where "normal" users take our software
> and go
> > at it. It exposes some interesting thinking and some common issues. I
> also
> > loved that she kept commenting on how everything was so fast, and it's
> nice
> > that she noticed that.
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:31 PM, dkotrada <dkotrada@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > So guys time to rename the applications in elementaryos. Maya > Kalender
> :)
> >
> >
> > 2012/12/10 Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Thanks for the link! I'm sending this to our development community
> mailing
> >> list so they can discuss it. It's always cool to see our software used
> by
> >> people all across the world.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Philip Adams <osfirsttimer@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi, I just wanted to alert you that due to popular demand from Linux
> fans
> >> your operating system has been featured on my channel which has close
> to 200
> >> subscribers. My channel is about getting my mum to try out various
> operating
> >> systems and comment on the usability and intivitivity of them. I give
> her a
> >> set of tasks to see if she can perform them on the operating system.
> >>
> >> Here is the video of your operating system being tested:
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULblsnv48WM
> >>
> >> Here is my channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/OsFirstTimer
> >>
> >>
> >>
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