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

[Ross Burton <r burton 180sw com>]

Ali Abdin wrote:

> * 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).

I'd like that a lot. Could be very handy for organising a large 
collection of files. This is an example of something I do often:

I have a folder called "Incoming" on my disk where I download programs 
and documents. Every now and again I decide to clean it up, so I go 
through it and delete everything which is not what I was after, then 
move the rest of the files into the correct directory (i.e. 
Win32/Programming, Linux/Internet, Documents/Specs/XSLT) by dragging and 
dropping. If I had a File Sidebar I could move all of the files I wanted 
to keep onto it, then go through each of my folders one by one, moving 
into it relevant files from the sidebar.

Ross

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