Re: File dialogs: File management

[Fabrice Colin <fabrice colin muscat com>]

Christian Rose wrote:
> I read the page about Win95 file dialog criticism (the link was posted
> here) and one of the criticisms was that many operations were only
> provided by right-clicking files/directories in the box.
> Right-clicking isn't very intuitive.
> I think that what the writer meant was that right-clicking should only
> be provided as another way to do some operations.
> I.e. we would still need buttons for Rename, Delete and Create
> Directory, and _then_ we could have a right-click menu for that too.
> 
Okee dokee.

> Yes. I hate additional dialogs that popup from operations inside dialogs
> (!)... can you say "dialog hell"?

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> On the other hand, I love the idea with making renaming work the way it
> does in Windows - by directly manipulating the file names in the dialog
> itself (I assume you all know how it works).
Excellent ! I couldn't agree more.
Let me give you a tap on the back. Here !
8:)

Fabrice