On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > I really don't need the little pictures in front of the file names. Does > anybody?
Sure. The typical user GNOME wants to target does. They don't know enough to properly add extensions to their file names without coaxing by the applications, and they cannot deal with, say, a pdf file that is named "readme.txt" for some stupid reason. The problem is twofold: 1. GNOME is used by a lot more people than the ridiculously low skill level user they aim at, and the GNOME project are often really bad at not dumbing down their interface in non-reversible ways. This means a lot of users get unhappy at the way the interface gets dumber and dumber at every new release. 2. Broken, stupid, non/badly-engineered design on the underlying code is becoming more and more common on the desktop environments. The GNOME file-picker is a fine example of such things, but is hardly the worst offender. One only needs to read the average applet sourcecode to be nearly driven to tears of anguish and pain. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
