Re: [Usability] The ``Replace File'' dialog should display the two

[Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

Em 4 Aug, 2005, às 7:35 AM, Christian Neumair escreveu:
> Am Donnerstag, den 04.08.2005, 12:11 +0200 schrieb Diego Moya:
> ...
> > I noticed there's a functionality missing. Now you can't rename files.
> > Maybe you could add a "Rename selected" button alongside the
> > "Overwrite selected" one? Or maybe another column with a "rename"
> > command button for each file.
>
> Maybe you could post a mockup? I can't think of a nice way to integrate
> this into the GUI atm - I also suppose that this isn't very common. The
> midnight commander doesn't have it, and the midnight commander has
> everything else ;). How is this functionality integrated into win32/mac
> os?
> ...

It isn't. The file managers built into Windows and Mac OS aren't very 
powerful. (They don't even include a mass-rename function, for 
example.)

It's great that people are working on designing an interface for 
synchronizing multiple copies of items; it would be a great feature for 
Nautilus that Explorer and Finder don't have. But it really doesn't 
belong as an unexpected alert -- such a complex window popping up 
apparently by itself (the necessary preflighting to count all the 
conflicts could take dozens of seconds after the move/copy was ordered) 
would fail the "WTF?" test no matter how it was designed.

I think the overwrite alert should be really simple, a maximum of two 
sentences with "Replace" and "Cancel" buttons, so that people will have 
a chance of reading it; and a "Synchronize..." or similar button 
leading to this advanced interface for fine-grained 
overwrite/retain/rename decisions.

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Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/