Re: Mime types and nautilus

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 15:58, George Farris wrote:
> 
> When wanting to copy a number of files cut and paste is nice but it
> doesn't give any feedback and dragging and dropping files is just a pain
> many times.  So I imagine:
> 
> - User selects many files and drags them to the sidebar shelf.
> - Files show up as icon list in sidebar or something similar so user can
> see what they copied/moved.
> - Change to new or other directory in Nautilus.
> - Click anywhere in shelf doesn't have to be on icon and drag files to
> right hand side.
> - Viola files are copied/moved.
> - Copy/move doesn't have to be done immediately as the user can always
> see whats in the shelf until it's emptied/used.
> 
> Basically it's a vfolder temporary storage space.  One could even build
> up a group of files from different directories and then copy them.

Sounds like the way the desktop used to work in MacOS System < (?) 7.0.