Re: [Usability] The ``Replace File'' dialog should display the two file sizes, times, etc.



Am Donnerstag, den 04.08.2005, 01:42 -0700 schrieb Jason Day:
> Very nice, I think there should be an easy way to (un)check all files,
> though.

I've planned to place a little checkbox in the first column header which
allows to unselect all if all are selected and allows to select all if
that's not the case.

> On 8/4/05, Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org> wrote:
>         Am Freitag, den 29.07.2005, 23:20 -0400 schrieb Jason Hoover:
>         > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:03 +0100, Phil Bull wrote: 
>         > > On 7/29/05, Jason Day <jason s day gmail com> wrote:
>         > > > Well, I decided to have a go at it:
>         > >
>         > > I had a go too:
>         > > 
>         > > http://www.geocities.com/philbull_tk/gnome_dlg_mockup.png
>         > >
>         > > The text is a bit confusing/ambiguous and the dialog is
>         pretty big. 
>         > >
>         > > Thanks
>         > >
>         > > Phil
>         > >
>         >
>         > I like this one too, it tells the user almost exactly what's
>         going on,
>         > but I have a few suggestions/questions.
>         >
>         > *There should be a select/de-select all/invert options,
>         perhaps context
>         > menu.
>         >
>         > *Will the view be expanded by default?
>         >
>         > *There should be a way to Rename. Perhaps a context menu?
>         Have the 
>         > "Existing file" column change to "File will be renamed to:"
>         to
>         > illustrate.
>         >
>         > *As Eric said, there should probably only be an "Overwrite
>         selected"
>         > option, but I think perhaps a "Skip All" button should be
>         the default on 
>         > the far right for our friend Mr. Point-and-Grunt.
>         >
>         > *Hmm, entering the distracting pink flamingo territory, a
>         tooltip to get
>         > more information on the file, or maybe a properties context
>         menu? 
>         
>         I've placed a proposed implementation of such a dialog under
>         [1,2], which is losely
>         linked to your proposal. You will simply have to unpack the
>         attached
>         testconflict.tbz2 file and enter "make".
>         I am heavily interested to get a similar dialog structure into
>         Nautilus
>         2.14. Any comments?
>         
>         [1]
>         http://manny.cluecoder.org/file-revision-dialog/conflicting-file-revisions.png
>         [2]
>         http://manny.cluecoder.org/file-revision-dialog/testconflict.tbz2

-- 
Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>

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