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

[Jussi Hagman <jhagman infa abo fi>]

Quoting Matthew Walton (mxw00u Cs Nott AC UK):
> Julian Missig wrote:
> 
> > I too would like to see the shelf implemented. Personally, I'd like to
> > see it such that there are keyboard shortcuts for "move to shelf" and
> > "copy to shelf" and "move from shelf" - which would be very similar to
> > the copy, cut, and paste method which windows uses.
> 
> I'd also like to see that. Having a visible shelf instead of an invisible
> clipboard would be excellent,

Yes and it would be more flexible to use than clipboard. One could
move files to the shelf multiple times, whereas cutting and copying
empties the clipboard before the operation.  The user could travel her
directories and place all files that do not belong to some directory
to the shelf and put them on the right place while passing that
directory.

As my friend mentioned, the shelf approach could be confusing to a
beginner so there probably could be also the cut/copy/paste -approach
implemented to the beginner -mode. (Atleast people having Windows
experience are familiar with ccp-style of managing files)

Greetings,
Jussi


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