Re: [Usability]Dealing with files in Gnome

[Wesley Leggette <wleggette gate net>]

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:06, MArk Finlay wrote:
> > That's a really good point. So the "drop" submenu (or just the items if
> > we don't use submenus) will appear only when clicking on whitespace or
> > on a folder? That should be easy to do, right?
> 
> I was thinking about this again, and while it is sound in theory it may
> make the Drop menu item too hard to find. Right now there is a "Paste
> Files" item when you click on a file and in the new implementation there
> would probably need to be both Pick up and Drop items in both the
> context menu for the folder and it's files.

So in that case, we'd have the drop items grayed out in the context
items for files? If we do that, it makes sense. "Paste" is always in the
context menu now, it's just not always available.

> 
> 
> > Yes, I suppose you're right. When you pick things up, you're not really
> > "moving" them, per se. You're just "picking up" and then "droping". So
> > this is the current design?
> > 
> > ...          |
> > Pick Up      |
> > ...          |
> > Drop Here    |
> > Drop Copies  |
> > Drop Links   |
> > ...          |
> > Cancel Drag  |
> > ...          |
> > 
> > Should we still come up with some other alturnative for "cancel drag"? I
> > think someone else suggested "Cancel Pick Up", but is that too many
> > characters?
> 
> I don't think it's too long, It's a lot shorter than other things in the
> context menu atm. So I'd go with Cancel Pick Up.
> 
> 
> > Out of curiosity, do you know how an undo would work? Is it just
> > remembering the last few options, or are there some sort of file system
> > components also? Files in ext2 don't actually have to be moved around
> > internally, just relinked to new folders, right? But what about
> > cross-volume moving and copying? Do you know who's working on this?
> 
> There is apparently some code in nautilus that never got fully
> implemented, and there is a bug about it in bugzilla. I assume that it
> would work the same way as it does in windows explorer. It's a really
> useful thing to have.
> 
> Cross volume shouldn't be too much of a problem, just gotta check that
> the source volume is still avaliable and if not give a warning.
> 
> =
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Wesley Leggette <wleggette gate net>