Comments on: London & gedit news

By: Leonardo Fontenelle

Leonardo Fontenelle — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:54:23 +0000

That’s wonderful news!

By: pbor

pbor — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:26:54 +0000

Effy: the “common opinion” of the developers is based on the feedback from our userbase. Including the fact that I am asking for feedback in this very blog post. That said “asking the users” about ui is pretty much a recipe for a bad ui since the ui will be based on a zillion different opinions instead of a uniform vision. What we need to collect from the user are their requirements and needs and once we have them is up to us to come up with what we think is the best ui to address them. So, to put it another way: why would you miss the old “open location”? What could it do that can’t be done with the file chooser? Or is it just flaming for the sake of flaming?

By: Effy

Effy — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:14:21 +0000

So now we’re back to making design decisions based on the “common opinion” of the developers, rather than actually asking the users?

Yay, it’s GNOME 1.x all over again.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:44:22 +0000

Within one session, a directory/files are only statted once and kept in cache, we keeps it reasonably fast. Nevertheless, it does do synchronous IO, so there are some possible foreseen problems which might make it necessary to make it all asynchronous.

By: Daniel B Lucraft

Daniel B Lucraft — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:34:45 +0000

Super stuff. Can’t wait to try it out. How do you keep it fast?

By: pbor

pbor — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:17:47 +0000

Rafael: I would not be surprised if margins are slightly not HIGgy… a patch would be more than welcome :-)

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:24:54 +0000

That’s interesting. I wish every app could do something like that…
Still needs to be HIGfied, right?