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40+ Suggestions for Better Desktop

Usability
Usability

An article "40+ Suggestions for a Better Desktop" discusses how to extend recent desktops to improve their usability. Ideas in this article cover a wide range of desktop applications, e.g. Nautilus, multimedia, spreadsheets, mail clients, configuration, security...

The article is intended for developers of those applications but users could discuss these ideas so developers will know what a users wants.

Enlighten us then, what is

Enlighten us then, what is high priority on corporate desktops? A good working desktop isn't?

Oh nice... reframe the issue as "a working desktop". You might try reading the thread before posting. File-roller is crap because it has to completely uncompress the file while you are holding down the mouse button. It's useless for large files -- exactly the sort of thing for which archives are used. Now, leaving aside the fact that, as I said, archive managers are not a priority for corporate desktops... handling extremely large archived (which is where file-roller falls down with its problem), is even less of a problem for a corporate desktop.

Why don't you do something even remotely productive and tell for example what would a good archive manager be like?

You are stupid, aren't you. I ask because this entire thread is about a bug in file-roller that makes it practically useless for home users. Perhaps you should print it out and get your special needs teacher to explain it to you.

As I said, I can't see you helping.

I don't use file-roller. It's been broken for 4 years. So I'm not about to start using it. So I'm not about to start fixing it either.