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

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj novell com>]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 16:07 +0200, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:

> Summarizing what we've achieved so far:
> - Display better text messages, and make it clear which file is
> older/newer.
> - Avoid displaying file type (maybe we could display it only when it's
> different between the two files?)
> - Pre-fill the rename entry(-ies?) with the current name and select it
> until the extension.
> - Merge the Replace and Rename buttons and add a Reset one.
> 
> I will try to adapt the code to this and will post some updated
> screenshots soon :)

Maybe we could automatically compare files below a certain size and just
overwrite (basically update metadata on the target) if they have the
exact same contents, without showing any dialog at all. That would
simplify the use case where you're merging two dirs that may contain
duplicate files. It's a case I tend to run into. The dialog spam
sometimes causes me to go "yes, yes, yes, yes, doh, that last one wasn't
a duplicate!"

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Hans Petter