Re: questions regarding two Nautilus issues people report frequently

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 01:22 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> I think intuititvely file operations should be perceived like:
> * duplicate: file A -> file B, A:B=1:1
> * copy = duplicate [target being in another folder]
> * move = copy + delete original = duplicate A to B + rename B + delete
> file A
> 
> And these semantics are actually provided by Nautilus 2.20 and earlier -
> I do not remember a single complaint.

I fully agree. I'm not conviced at all by the argument that "cp does the
same". That's like saying we can't copy directories in nautilus just
because cp without -r can't copy directories, either. In my opinion,
copying files in nautilus should be like cp --archive, i.e. it should
preserve symlinks, mtime, permissions, and copy directories recursively.

Jürg