Re: Nautilus usability and nit-picks

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Rajit Singh">

> Regardless of whether or not you decide to copy windows' choices or not,
> why not add little graphical decals to the icons whilst they are attached
> to the pointer (being dragged)?  This is something windows does that is
> definitely useful... it appends a little '+' in a square to indicate if
> the file will be copied, a little curved arrow if a shortcut'll be made
> and nothing if it will be moved.
> 
> Means the decisions the file manager makes behind the scenes are less
> opaque.

Nautilus does this, but it's not entirely obvious on the move cursor. Copy
adds a plus, move just shows an arrow.

We really ought to have prettier cursors anyway, just to make stuff like
this obvious.

- Jeff

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