Re: properties dialog relationship to displayed selection

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 13:37, Mathieu Lacage wrote:

> I'd like to patch the file properties dialog to make it disapear when
> the user un-selects the selection which was used to instantiate this
> dialog.
>
> The rationale behind this is that when the selection changes or when no
> selection is displayed anymore, the user has no way to know what the
> dialog is being applied to (yes, it could look in the first tab but this
> was not obvious to me when I used it).
> 
> Will the patch be accepted if I send it ?

Hmm, I appreciate the problem, but to me it doesn't really sound like
the right thing to do.  This would stop you having multiple properties
dialogs open simultaneously, which can be useful for comparing
properties or even copying/pasting information between them.

One improvement might be to show something like "Properties - 4 files",
or "Properties - filename1.xyz + 3 others" in the titlebar of multi-file
Properties dialogs, rather than just "Properties".

Cheeri,
Calum.

-- 
CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer       Sun Microsystems Ireland
mailto:calum benson sun com            GNOME Desktop Group
http://ie.sun.com                      +353 1 819 9771

Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems