Re: the Nautilus context menu

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On 13 Nov 2002, Andrew Sobala wrote:

> From: Andrew Sobala <andrew sobala net>
> Subject: Re: the Nautilus context menu
> > The menus, without #82162 fixed, would be:
> > +------------------+
> > | Open With       >| -------------- +---------------+
> > +------------------+                | <the default> |
> > | Pick Up          |                +---------------+
> > | Drop            >| - +--------+   | <other        |
> > +------------------+   | Here   |   |   openers>    |
> > | Move to Trash    |   | Copy   |   |               |
> > | Delete           |   | Link   |   +---------------+
> > +------------------+   +--------+
> > | Properties       |   | Cancel |
> > +------------------+   +--------+
> >
>
> Presumably "Cancel" is if you don't want to "hold" whatever you "picked
> up" any more. Really, this has the same problem as cut/paste. If you
> "pick up" something, and then go and do something else, where does the
> file go? Answer: it hasn't gone anywhere. So "Cancel" is just a
> non-functional menu item :-)

No it isn't. Well, here it is, because of your previous arguments, but
the same context menu (with different names) could be used when right-
dragging a file and then releasing the button (same as in windows).

As an aside, what does link do? Create a hard-link, a soft-link, or a
.desktop file?

Kind regards,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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