Re: New dialog for handling file conflicts in Nautilus - UI review request

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 9 May 2008, at 12:20, Luca Ferretti wrote:

> Il giorno mer, 23/04/2008 alle 23.03 +0200, Cosimo Cecchi ha scritto:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I wrote a dialog to improve the way Nautilus behaves when there's a
> > conflict between two files in a file operation.
>
> Just for reference, here[1] is the Win Vista dialog for conflicts,  
> full
> description here[2].

Hmm, rather too much information in your face there, I would say-- so  
much that they've had to use bright green arrows to point out the  
important bits[3]! Think I'd have to read everything at least twice to  
figure out what to do.

Cheeri,
Calum.

> [1] http://www.macvswindows.com/images/2/21/fileconflict.png
> [2] http://www.macvswindows.com/index.php?title=File_Management

[3] Okay, I guess this may be a standard UI pattern on Vista... I  
haven't used it enough to know...

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