Re: properties dialog relationship to displayed selection

[Mathieu Lacage <mathieu_lacage myrealbox com>]

Le jeu 11/09/2003 à 19:43, Calum Benson a écrit :
> 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


I was thinking to something like a per-nautilus-window property-window.
This would allow you to have two property windows if you have two
nautilus windows...

Your suggestin sounds like a good idea to me though. I'll hack it if no
one beats me to it and if no one wants my own suggestion.

Mathieu

> Properties dialogs, rather than just "Properties".
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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