Re: GNOME Weirdness

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

On 15 Mar 2001 10:01:11 +0100, Jens Finke wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2001, George Farris wrote:
> 
> 
> > There needs to be some kind of copy/paste or file shelf function to
> > temporarily hold files one is moving or coping.
> 
> There has been a long discussion in the early days of nautilus development
> about this feature. They came up with the result, that it's not intuitive
> and consistent so they dropped support for it.
> 

You know that statement is just down right wrong.  Intuitiveness is in
the eye of the beholder.  Not everyone thinks or sees things the same
way.  The mailing list is a testament to the fact that people actually
do want a copy a paste function.  Providing this as a feature would have
been a very nice option.  It could be a preference that is turned on.

> > Trying to have two windows open on a small screen and

> > drag between them is a joke.  Sorry Eazel but it's just not good enough
> > as a file manager - yet.
> 
> Well, you can turn off all the menu and side bars seperatly for every
> window. So you can have only a simple window with directory contents. I
> don't think one can implement an application which uses less space.
> 
> Regards,
>    Jens

How about an area in the file manager like a button or square that you
can drag files to and then copy them back out.  A temporary holding
space so to speak.  At any rate window to window dragging remains a
pain.