Simplifying GNOME file management
Submitted by arvindn on Sun, 2004-06-06 12:21.
Usability
I've written an article outlining three proposals for more intuitive file management in GNOME.
File management today is a lot more cumbersome than it needs to be. The computer science undergrad learns the "In UNIX, everything is a file" philosophy and is blown away by the beauty of it. However, this world-view is not well suited for a user-interface. "Beauty" is not the description that springs to mind. "Kludge" is more like it.
Spatial nautilus is an admirable step in the right direction: it discards the filesystem approach and adopts the folder-as-an-object metaphor. But there's a lot more to do.