16 Sep 2003 mpesenti   » (Master)

We are working for a bugfix release on the stable branch to go with mozilla 1.4.1. Christian did a great work closing a lot of dups in bugzilla and posting fix for them. I have still to review his gnome print patch though ... bad me.

I finally got my work on StorageStore in a working state. Waiting for seth approval to check it in completely. It seem to work nearly out of the box with redhat 9 installation, which will be good for testing.

Had to explain someone how to organize his photos yesterday (on windows). It was a real pain, I hardly managed to explain him how to put them from photocamera virtual drive on the images folder, but I had to give up on organizing them in subfolders part ... Nautilus guys are trying out a new UI that will include a spatial model as default. I think it's an interesting development. While I agree with Norman's critics to a purely spatial organization of data (that's why I actually prefer the "object model" definition), I think the navigational model introduce an extra level of abstraction to try to work around problems on the way data is accessed. You gain some speed moving through the directories, but the problem isnt really solved: when working on projects with several files involved, I usually end up spending more time navigating in folders, than doing the actual work. Going back to a more natural (less abstracted) conceptual model could encourage the development of more natural and efficient ways for accessing/filtering data. Basically my feeling nautilus developers are doing a great step in the right direction, good luck :)

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