overwriting files in Nautilus

[Victor Jimenez Jaimez <vjjaimez gmail com>]

Hi!

There's something I find missing in Gnome compared to when I used to 
work with Windows XP (which, overall, I hated). In most file managers, 
when I want to save or paste a file to a directory that already contains 
a file with the same name, the file manager shows a dialog box asking if 
I really want to overwrite the file or not. In windows XP (and in KDE I 
think), the file manager also gives you information about the file, its 
size and the date and time when it was modified for the last time. It 
helps a lot in order to be sure that the file you are overwriting is 
older that the one you want to save or paste.

But in Nautilus no information of that kind is shown. The application 
only gives you the options, not the information. To be sure that what 
you're doing is safe for your data, you have to close the dialog box and 
check the properties of both files in the contextual menu (right-cliking 
on both icons). It makes file managing deceptive and, hence, less secure 
and slower.

I don't think it'd be very complicated to fix, isn't it?

Thank you. It's really the only one thing about Nautilus (and Gnome, for 
that matter) that I find annoying.