[Fwd: Re: Reducing the number of special uris in gnome]

Hmm... Appears like I sent my comment as private mail instead of 
replying to all (never use a new mail client for "important" messages 
. Well, so I'm forwarding my opinion again.

From: Mathias Hasselmann <mathias.hasselmann <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Reducing the number of special uris in gnome
Date: 2002-06-28 18:04:51 GMT

Dave Bordoley wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 12:33, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
>>So you want to expose the fact to users that our settings dialogs are in 
>>fact applications?

Alexander: Why do you want to hide the fact that the settings dialogs 
are applications? They are applications.

> Seth already made this decision when he put preferences in the
> applications menu (and therefore in the applications:// directory).
> 
> (applications://Preferences, applications://system)

First: If you click on something that looks like a folder the 
Upwards-Button should work after that. Anything else just is inconsitent 
bullshit.

Second: It's really confusing the the URL schema changes after clicking 
on something in the start-here: folder. A good suggestion about how to 
avoid this feeling was already made in this discussion: When there is
and alias for a URL location, display the alias instead of the URL in 
the location field:

	alias = gnome_vfs_url_get_human_readable_name(uri);
	gtk_entry_set_text(GTK_ENTRY(location_entry),
		           alias ? alias : uri);

For sake of transparency -- which is very important in my opinion -- the 
  real location should be displayed in the statusline or as tooltip. As 
statusline it would have the advantage to be a possible target for 
copy-and-paste actions.

Third: Would a tree view for the start-here: folder be useful?

Fourth: But that's too late I guess: I'd rename "start-here:" to "gnome:".

Ciao,
Mathias