Re: Nautilus usability and nit-picks

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 1 Oct 2002, Brent Fox wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 10:51, Christian Rose wrote:
> > ons 2002-09-18 klockan 19.17 skrev Brent Fox:
> > > > > > Lastly, but thats just a nit-pick, it seems odd that the menu reads 'Cut 
> > > > > > File' (or files with multiple selected) instead of just 'Cut'. First of 
> > > > > > all a user might not have a 'file' reference.. its his 'document' right? 
> > > > > > Secondly, it's different from that i'm used to (in windows, etc you 
> > > > > > always 'cut' whatever you selected.. be it text, files or whatever). 
> > > > > > Lastly it gets to be confusing when i select folders and files.. cut 
> > > > > > files.. does that include the folders i selected?! I apreciate the 
> > > > > > 'wordy user friendlyness' attempted, but it has only served to confuse 
> > > > > > me in that case)
> > > > > 
> > > > > It might not always be a document, so perhaps changing these strings would
> > > > > be good (in 2.1.x!).
> > > > 
> > > > The ui-review recommended just having Cut, Copy and Paste rather than
> > > > appending the object type (especially as it was showing the wrong object
> > > > type in at least one place, IIRC)... dunno why that change didn't get
> > > > made.
> > > 
> > > What's in HEAD still says "Cut File", "Copy File" and "Paste Files". 
> > > I've created a patch to make the Edit menu just say, "Cut", "Copy" and
> > > "Paste".
> > 
> > Just out of curiosity, has this patch been approved or committed in the
> > mean time, or attached to a bug report in GNOME bugzilla?
> 
> Sorry, I've been on vacation for a while.  No, the patch hasn't been
> approved or committed.  Alex said that the patch wouldn't work because
> it's possible for the user to select a file and then select some text in
> the Notes panel, and you need the string in the Edit menu to tell you
> what you have selected is a "File" and not a string.
> 
> In my opinion, having two things selected in the same window is a bug. 
> It should not be possible for the user to have a file/directory
> highlighted and have text in the Notes window be highlighted at the same
> time.  I will file a bug on this.

I actually looked at this code the other day, and it used to work, but 
it's got a GNOME2_CONVERSION_COMPLETE ifdef around the code.

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