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

["John Sullivan" <sullivan eazel com>]

on 11/10/00 6:56 AM, Ali Abdin at aliabdin aucegypt edu 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.

I should point out that reactions to file cut/copy/paste are far from
unanimous even for Eazel folks, for what that's worth. The only thing that's
unanimous about it is that it won't be implemented for our first release.

John