Re: [PATCH] Fixup File Operation Error Dialogs

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:47:35PM +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> 
> I think Darin is right [1] when stating that "Pavel was thinking that if
> the problem is one with permissions, a retry is useless ... . This does
> overlook the possibility of using going to correct the error while the
> dialog is up, ... .".
> 
> I've attached another patch which makes nautilus display "cancel, retry"
> if we copy exactly one file and otherwise "skip, cancel, retry".
> 
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-May/msg00065.html

It would be nice to be able to imbed a link to yelp that says how
to deal with the situation.  As a user I have no idea what I would
do if I knew nothing about filesystem semantics.

It's the little details that make GNOME usable for newbies..

sri