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

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 24 Apr 2008, at 16:44, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 01:13 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
>
> > Like most attempts at improving this dialog in the past, the main
> > problem is that it's initially pretty overwhelming to look at IMHO.
> > I'd like to see even more in the way of progressive disclosure, so by
> > default it might look more like this quick mockup:
> > <http://www.gnome.org/~calum/screenies/nautilus-replace.png >
>
> The idea of an option to "Replace any other files without asking" and
> hitting "Skip" makes my skin crawl...
>
> Calum, I believe you meant that option to actually be more of an  
> "apply
> this decision to all conflicts", didn't you?

Oops, yes.  I was too busy trying to ensure that you couldn't tell it  
to "Rename" any other conflicts automatically, that I forgot you might  
want to Skip all other conflicts automatically too.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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