Re: [PATCH] Fixup File Operation Error Dialogs

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 22:47 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Montag, den 16.05.2005, 17:50 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> 
> > For the other change I'm somewhat uncertain. Someone took extra time to
> > figure out exactly in what case not to display the Retry case. I'm not
> > sure why this was done. Maybe there is an technical reason why retry
> > doesn't work in these cases? Can anyone think of the reason this was
> > done? (The code was written by Pavel Cisler.)
> 
> 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

I agree with Darin, and i also agree with mpt that its likely users will
close the alert the first thing they do. However, there are still some
use for the retry button (as witnessed by the bug report) and it being
there doesn't increase confusion since its on all other such dialogs.

So, looks fine to commit.

Of course, the other ideas people had about helping the user handle this
would be very nice too.

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