Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11
Suren Karapetyan
surenkarapetyan at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 21:57:10 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>>
>> I think the proponents of change do a disservice to their chosen cause
>> in choosing the argumentation they have so far. Trying to coerce a
>> change by hammering away with the blunt instruments of populism. It's
>> not going to work. Coercion is the wrong method and populist arguments
>> are the wrong tool. You have to persuade the decision-makers, and to
>> do that you have to understand how they prioritize and think. The
>> art of persuasion is a subtle science. It's brain surgery, not to be
>> performed with the hammer or rhetoric or with the pitchforks and
>> torches of populist appeal. You have to crawl inside the heads of
>> the people whose minds you are looking to change, and think like them.
>
> So what about simple logic:
> The companies with big budgets already performed the due diligence
> that no one here is willing to do - and we can see they all made the
> same choice.
>
> How about simplicity: You already know how to open one browser
> window. If you want two for drag/drop or copy/paste operations you
> don't need to do anything different, just do it again.
>
> How about horrible user interface: in the spatial mode you have to use
> the middle mouse button all the time to get expected operation.
> Where's the middle mouse button on my laptop?
<sarcasm>
Just press left&right buttons together.
If You keep training for a few days You'll be able to trigger a
middle-click 80% of the time.
</sarcasm>
>
> But the worst part about this mess is the way the change in the
> default appeared in the first place. You make it sound like the
> burden should be on the people who want the current setting changed,
> but in fact it should never have been permitted in the first place.
>
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