Re: [Nautilus-list] cut/copy/paste

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Jon Allen (joncallen hotmail com) wrote at 12:54 on 10/11/00:
> Ben Ford wrote:
> >
> >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.
> 
> A good example of similar functionality is in M$office2k - Word has a 
> 'Clipboard' toolbar, which accepts multiple cuts/copies/etc, which you can 
> then choose to paste from.  This can be very useful.

I think the Eazel folks expressed their dislike for the "clipboard" style of
cutting/copying/pasting files.

What would be better though is if we have a 'File SideBar' which is just a
place where you can "move" or "copy' files into (temporarily), and which you
can then move them out of (you could also have keyboard bindings (Move to File
SideBar, Copy to File SideBar, Move from File SideBar, (and maybe even Copy From
File SideBar).