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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yea, it is possible to change the default for the Save dialog? Defaulting
to recent makes no sense since you can't save there.


On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Haha yeah I was raging at that GNOME file picker dialog. xD
> On Dec 9, 2012 9:13 PM, "Victor Eduardo" <victor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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Daniel Foré

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