Re: [Usability]Dealing with files in Gnome

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hello Wesley,

On Tue, 31 Mar 2003, Wesley Leggette wrote:

> Regarding Pick up and drop, I think the semantics are no better. What
> happens if you "pick up" one object, then another, and then drop? It

The way this ought to work is to let it be impossible to pick up more than
one object (or group of objects) at a time.

> would work this same way, the change in terminology is pointless. We all
> know what cut, copy, and paste mean and it's more than logical to assume
> our users do to.

I'd wager to guess most of "our users" are familiar with editing
operations in the context of word processing. But I highly doubt this is
the case for file management - stretching the cut/copy/paste metaphor to
that area was, IMHO, silly to begin with.

> it's different that traditional cut and paste, the name change would be
> appropriate. And hey, we could always have a preferences toggle between
> the two modes of operation.

A pref for this would just shove the problem on the users' plate, and we'd
still be arguing which mode is to be made the default one.

regards,

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