Re: [Usability] A (rather long) list of GNOME usability issues - undo

[Sven Jaborek <sven lug-dorsten gmx de>]

I had the pain of missing undo some times, it happend to me when i drag
dropped or moved a folder by accident - and then i did not know what has
happend. Or, for example you start a move process and it brakes for some
reason - what do you want to do then, either you would like to start
again, or you want to know what has happend exactly.

If undo is to hard to implement, i suggest writing a nautilus log file
is a good start. Bash provides a history and i think nautilus should do
this too.

br, Sven

Am Samstag, den 15.10.2005, 00:06 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair:
> > Problem: There is no undo.
> >=20
> > Calum Benson isn't happy about it either perhaps some people need to
> > come up with clear plans and help a developer implement it.  again
> an
> > issue which should be discussed with the nautilus developers.
> 
> Rename undo doesn't seem too heavy, undoing a move or copy operation
> that involves many folders and changes to the source/target directory
> in
> a clean fashion sounds way harder. I'm interested in whether you want
> a
> global undo (for all windows), or whether each window undo history
> should be treated separately. What if you close a window? One can make
> this arbitrarily complex by storing the undo history of a window
> inside
> the metadata system, but I doubt it's worth the pain for everyday use.
> "Ooops, I didn't want to rename that" might be the most common
> use-case.
> 
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