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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 14:17, Diego Moya <turingt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 13 May 2010 14:08, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > You would get rid of the pesky timing issue, but introduce state and
> > still require 2 clicks for the most common action (if opening is not the
> > most common action on files or folders, I would suggest something is
> > going wrong).
>
> There will be (short) sessions when opening is the most common action,
> but then there are also sessions where selecting - for copying,
> moving, renaming - is the most common action.
>
> Actually I'd dare to say that the most frequent usage of the file
> manager is the second one. The preferred way to open files and
> applications in the modern desktop is through the top menus and
> instant-search tools like Gnome-DO. So why should "open" supposed to
> be the most common action? I don't think that assumption is true.
>

like somebody said on the xdg list... exposing hierarchical filesystems in
user space is the actual problem.
in German we would now say "jetzt haben wir den salat", meaning we are now
exposed to increased communication entropy within the UI ;)

honestly, please name the use cases for file operations.
i want to see thumbs for photos, not filenames.
i want to read metadata (artist, album, title, artwork) for songs.
other stuff should have titles or other forms of identification, not
filenames.
filenames are, nowadays, something to handle automagically; and with them
the absolute path of the respective file.

about clicking problems with drag and drop:
instead of complaining about how difficult drag operations will get when
clicking gets easier, better think about how to make single-clicking more
fault tolerant.