Re: Desktop usability issues: some comments from, the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

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by Jacob Beauregard :: Rate this Message:

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Apologies, I actually restarted my message last time so I didn't cut out
the subject header to put in the subject header. Sending this out so
there's an appropriate subject heading.

Please respond to this rather than Re: [Usability] Usability Digest, Vol
65, Issue 4 to keep the subject heading applicable.

> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:58:19 -0400
> From: Jacob Beauregard <deadowlsurvivor@...>
> To: usability@...
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Usability Digest, Vol 65, Issue 4
> Message-ID: <4AA573EB.7010205@...>
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> Claes, I disagree. I would think to make that the default action.
> However, it would be good to be able to disable it.
>
> Initially I wasn't going to comment because I don't use the recent files
> list, but then I thought of some ways it could be improved.
>
> The recent documents list, unfortunately, is completely useless to me.
> It is filled with temporary files that are no longer on my computer. It
> would be an improvement to filter out temp files. It would also be
> useful to get recent documents on a per application basis using file
> extensions (at least by assertion) that can be opened by that particular
> application.
>
> My recent documents list:
>
> 1. A temp midi from archive.org
> 2-3. temp PDFs downloaded from Google search results.
> 4. A temp PDF generated by a script I wrote and was debugging.
> 5. Different temp copy of the first midi (1).
> 6-8. Three different temp downloads of the same javascript library.
> 9. SVN file I modified for a project.
> 10. Other file whose contents I added to the former (9).
>
> Not useful in the least.
>
> usability-request@... wrote:
>  
>> Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:16:18 +0200
>> From: Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts@...>
>> To: usability@..., xdg@...
>> Subject: Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from
>> the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5
>> Message-ID: <1252271778.7237.67.camel@localhost>
>> Content-Type: text/plain
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>> On di, 2009-09-01 at 21:21 +0200, Claes H wrote:
>>
>>  
>>    
>>> I would like to add to this a shared state / history between open /
>>> save dialogs to make it easer to open in one application that was just
>>> saved in another application.
>>>    
>>>      
>> I don't think something special is needed for this actually. Apps that
>> do a Save action should simply make sure they add the saved document to
>> the Recently used file list. (Maybe this could be promoted to a Gnome
>> Goal?)
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>  
>>    
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