Comments on: Why Federico is a Hero; GnomeVFS Documentation; Tango Nuevo; Quality Music

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Well, ok, but wouldn’t it have been easier to just point out that you can just type in a file name beginning with / or ~ without having to do anything at all?

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“Many people whined about the lack of an entry in GtkFileChoosers”

Try not to piss on people for having a different opinion. I don’t care about this feature but come on, grow up.

By: Chris Lord

Chris Lord — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“Try not to piss on people for having a different opinion. I don’t care about this feature but come on, grow up.”

Holy overreaction, Batman!

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“probably because they were to lazy to press Ctrl-L and loved to flame.”

Oh dear god don’t blame the users, as if Gnome developers don’t have a bad reputation for arrogance already. Insulting users only makes you look foolish especially since the correct phrase should have been “too lazy”. It was not laziness it was a geniune complaint about the design which had some merit – not a huge issue but not deserving of your condescending remarks – and has been addressed. Thanks Federico.

By: Emmanuele Bassi

Emmanuele Bassi — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

nobody, Alan: I have to pull out of the deck the Dilbert’s Principle here – “When did ignorance become a point of view?”

the discoverability of the ctrl+l keybinding was low – everyone admits that; but the sheer amount of places where it’s spelled out clearly (forums, mailing lists, usenet, pages) is overwhelming nowadays.

user do *not* have the right to stay ignorant. they have the right to *be* ignorant, at first – but willingly staying that way is stupidity, and I’d prefer not to waste my time developing software for stupid people.

By: Jakub Steiner

Jakub Steiner — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Sheesh! So many occurences if the word Tango and it’s not about us? What a disgrace

By: m

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“probably because they were to lazy to press Ctrl-L” …
That might sincerely be your opinion, but you have to realize
that even though some of the GNOME people thought it was good,
it was not accepted by everybody. Any feature that is still
controversial 1-2 years after introduction is BROKEN, does not matter what its designers think.
It’s as simple as that.

Obviously the same thing is true about “spatial” Nautilus.

By: GrumZ

GrumZ — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I totally agree with you about the poor quality and diversity of today's commercial music.

Personaly, I've found a great French webradio which broadcasts eclectic music for sensitive ears as they defined theirself. You can hear every kind of music from experimental to classical, or reggae, rock, electronic, hip hop, etc. During four days of broadcast, I didn't hear twice the same song !

http://www.radio404.org/

And they have an ogg stream !

It's worth trying it !

By: sb

sb — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“probably because they were to lazy to press Ctrl-L and loved to flame”

They weren’t lazy. They just couldn’t read the mind of the developer who implemented this feature. Control-L?? Could this feature have been made any more obscure? Well, I suppse it could have been Control-F9. Or Ctrl-Alt-ScrlLk or something…

By: theorz

theorz — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I hope that this file selector change is optional. I have really enjoyed having a file open dialig that is not cluttered by widgets I never use.