Re: What about these (old/annoying) bugs ?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:48, Olaf Fraczyk wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:15, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:04, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > > * Desktop:
> > > 
> > > - DND a dir from a read only dir/media to the Desktop should be
> > >   associated to copy, not move
> > > 
> > >   bug: 119467, 80694
> > 
> > As martin commented, this is pretty hard to fix. However, I fixed it to do 
> > the same as normal directories, so you'll get copy as the default if the 
> > source is on another filesystem.
> Hi,
> 
> Don't you think, that copy, in general, should be only for read-only and
> removable media?
> In Unix world you have one consistent directory structure.
> As administrator I want to hide all physical structure from the user.
> Users normally don't know if eg. /home/projects/telecom is on the same
> partition as /home or it is /dev/sda7 mounted under
> /home/projects/telecom.
> And think about symlinks, which can point to another filesystem
> transparently (mostly) for the user.
> So they are crazy finding out why at one time the default option is to
> move, and at another time it is to copy.

It depends a bit on why its on another filesystem. If its on a cdrom,
floppy, ftp site, ssh: location etc i think people would be pretty
surprised if a drag by default modified the source location.

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