Re: [Nautilus-list] Is PR2 much different from the latestrpm-snapshot?

[Ben Ford <bford talontech com>]

My thoughts on the subject:

Why not add a container to the panel on the left (sorry don't know what it's
called) where files would go while in limbo.  You could either drag files to the
container or right-click -> cut/copy.  This would allow a multidimensional
cut+paste history, it wouldn't have to be linear.  Perhaps the default when you
did a right-click -> cut, right-click -> paste would be linear, but you could
also open the clipboard component and drag files/text fragments/images/etc out of
it.

-b


> Yep, it's almost getting back to that philosophical "why is it only
> delete that has a trashcan" discussion we sort of touched on the other
> day... you want some sort of holding area to move files to once they've
> been "cut" (although you'd probably have to invent a different verb, for
> the reasons you mention-- unless all cuts were modified to work this
> way, which mightn't be a bad thing either), but without the risk of
> losing them should you cut or copy anything else in the meantime.
>
> Having said that, flawed and controversial it may be, but I use cut and
> paste almost exclusively to move files around on Windows in preference
> to drag and drop-- mostly because it's nearly always quicker, and also
> because it gets around the "will this file be copied, moved or linked
> when I drop it?" confusion that's inherent when you drag files around.
> (Plus it's a vital accessibility feature for those who can't drag and
> drop anything anyway.)
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
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