Re: [Usability] The "Replace File" dialog again

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

Please don't restart threads by replying to them almost 2 months later.
Start a new thread instead. :)

-- dobey

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 17:05 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- Sandy <sandythefire gmail com> wrote:
> >
> http://www.geocities.com/philbull_tk/gnome_dlg_mockup.png
> > 
> > As v all can see in the figure the dialog just has 2
> > actions :-
> > 
> >    1. Overwrite the existing file. 
> >    2. Skip the operation. 
> 
> I'm resurrecting the discussion after a long gap :)
> 
> I'm using gFTP at the moment, and that has a dialog of
> the same sort as we were thinking of in this thread:
> the user is asked what to do about a number of
> conflicts in a single dialog.
> 
> Instead of the check box, there's a column labelled
> 'Action', which shows one of skip, overwrite, resume
> (though I'm not sure what 'resume' means).
> Three buttons at the bottom set the value for the
> currently selected rows.
> 
> It's not perfect, but perhaps that along with the
> above suggestion would two good starting points to
> combine.
> 
> Joachim