Re: File management window -- some changes

["Eugene O'Connor" <Eugene Oconnor Sun COM>]

Luca's suggested changes imply that users do not understand how Trash works. I don't know if this is correct. But in the labels we need 
to be consistent in our assumptions about where the user is coming from.

The following are my suggestions from each point of view.

User Has Some Understanding of Trash
------------------------------------
s/Trash/Trash Behavior
s/Include a Delete command that bypasses Trash/Add a Delete menu item that ignores Trash
s/Ask before emptying the Trash or deleting files/Ask before emptying Trash

User Has No Understanding of Trash
----------------------------------
s/Trash/Deleting Files
s/Include a Delete command that bypasses Trash/Add a Delete menu item that removes files permanently
s/Ask before emptying the Trash or deleting files/Ask before deleting files

Personally, I think the concept of Trash has been around for long enough for us to assume that users at least have a general idea what it 
is. If they don't they can consult the online help, where it is all explained.

Eugene

PS: Also regarding the "1)include...where?" comment, I think the Delete menu item is added to the File menu and the popup menu. It would 
not be wise to add this information to the UI label. The correct place for this information is the online help.

PPS: Also s/Behaviour/Behavior in the first group on this dialog.

> Subject: File management window -- some changes
> From: Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>
> To: Nautilus List <nautilus-list gnome org>
> Date: 07 Jul 2003 15:08:24 +0200
> 
> Strings
> -------
> 
> * s/Include a Delete command .../Allow to delete file directly
> 
>         or a similar one. IMHO reading "Include a Delete command" is
>         wrong: 1) include... where? 2) command? What's a command?
> 
> * s/<b>Trash</b>/<b>Deleting Files</b>
> 
>         Not totally wrong, but here we are not configuring the trash
>         behavior
> 
> * s/Ask before emptying trash .../Ask before definitively delete files
> 
>         I like something to make more clear that those actions are
>         un-recoverable
> 
> 
> 
> Interface
> ---------
> 
> (Are we in UI freeze or don't? )
> 
> Remove the 'Tree View Default' section. Motivations:
>       * We don't have a 'tree view' like list and icon one, something
>         like MacOS finder, I mean. So this is the wrong place and the
>         wrong label
>       * How many people are using it? IMHO it's an advanced feature,
>         good for a gconf only access
> 
> And we need labels for optionmenu in Icon Captions section: this is an
> HIG bug!!
> 
> Oh, and 24 pixels between buttons and notebook's bottom border!!
> 
> 
> 
> Icon
> ----
> 
> Can we use the file-manager.png icon, recently added in
> gnome-icon-theme?
> 
> 
> P.S. Sorry, there was no time for me to prepare a patch :-(
> -- 
> Think bigger
> 
> 			My uncle
> 
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