[openbeos] Re: A very interesting 3D desktop prototype...

> > No "average user" in my everyday life would
> > imagine, i know it, that if they drop a document file into the printer
> > icon, it will print it. No one.
> This sounds weird, what could be more intuitive than dropping, let's
> say, a file to a printer? It's like saying "Hey printer, I want this
> printed ASAP" ;-) Now serious, I never imagined someone having problems
> with drag & drop, guess we all (power users) have a lot to lear yet :-(

I guess it depends on previous experience and how many times you have tried 
something "intuitive" and got disappointed.

> > Of course it looks fancy, but in my experience, normal 2D files and
> > folders are just being learnt by users, and new users prefer to have
> > their files into just one location. Some of them don't even trust in
> > the "My Documents" shortcut, and save their files into a folder named
> > after them in the root of the disk.
> Don't even "trust"? In what sense one folder is more "trustable" than
> another one? Honestly, I don't get the point.

"My Documents" appears to be "managed" by Windows. It's "real" location is 
somewhat obscured.

> > I vote for the Be search way. I write what i look for, and in a flash
> > i get it. It would be great in the real world to find stuff this fast,
> > and it is fantastic in the media OS.
> >  
> > Miguel Zúñiga González
> >  
> No doubt, long live to search. Hope we have metadata searches soon
> enough in Haiku ;-)

Huh? We don't?

Best regards,
-Stephan

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