Re: [Nautilus-list] I am going to implement cut, copy, paste for files

[Ryan Muldoon <rpmuldoon students wisc edu>]

On 21 Mar 2001 11:54:30 -0800, Darin Adler wrote:
> Heads up for the other Nautilus developers.
> 
> I'm going to implement a quick hack to make cut, copy, and paste work
handle
> files in the way Windows users have come to expect. In a nutshell, cut
or
> copy will make a list of the files (but cut will not cause files to be
> deleted), then at paste time, the files will be either copied or
moved. The
> underlying copy and move code will be the same code used when
dragging.
> 
> I am planning to do this instead of the "Move To..." and "Copy To..."
> commands as discussed in bug 2209.

Are there still any plans for a "shelf" sidebar, that would serve as a
temporary drag destination?  Although I'm an ex-windows user, I'm coming
to appreciate just using drag and drop instead of cut and paste for file
management.  A shelf sidebar would be helpful in general file
management.  What may be a nice feature would be if cut or copied files
appeared in the shelf sidebar, so the problem of cut files being in some
kind of limbo doesn't exist.  Hopefully this is a helpful suggestion.


    --Ryan