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

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 12:55 -0300, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> On 5 Aug, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Diego Moya wrote:
> > ...
> > Why should a conflicting copy operation destroy the old content? It
> > would be much better to move overwriten files to trash instead of
> > deleting them, so that if user makes a mistake she will be able to
> > undo it.
> > ...
> 
> The main problem with that is: what happens when you then select the 
> overwritten item in the Trash and invoke the (not-yet-implemented, but 
> hopefully higher priority) Restore command? There's already an item in 
> the original location with the same name. Following your rule, the item 
> in the original location isn't destroyed, it goes to the Trash, at the 
> same time as the item currently in the Trash goes to the original 
> location. The two items swap places. Unless they were pictures with 
> different icons, in Nautilus it would appear as if nothing had happened 
> at all, which would be quite confusing.

Yep... once again, I suspect a working "Undo" command in nautilus is
really what we're after here.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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