On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:48 AM, anthony
<dreadyman16 gmail com> wrote:
Nautilus(as File manager) should have pane, where it shows all selected
files. We should have way to save selection(we don't specify name - it
was created by Nautilus). Desktop can have the same feature(instead or
with described in previous paragraph) as file manager.
I never needed this, and i think it won't be usefull because it's very rare (in my opinion) to have to select and deselect some fils and save the selection, have you some use cases ?
Yes. In example we can create virtual place called as the selection.
User can select many files in many folders, called it as to remove.
He can remove the files from places menu, but before he can look at
files in this selection(group).
Second way to use them is to manage files. We can use single Nautilus
Windows to copy/move files. We select files to move/copy in many
locations or single. We can now go to destination. We can move selection
from saved selection left pane.
An example I want to :
move ~/toto/doc1 to ~/titi/
copy ~/tutu/doc2 to ~/toto/
and remove ~/tata/doc3
With Nautilus now if you have no bookmarks :
go to ~/toto/
right clic on doc1
cut
go to ~/titi
right clic
paste
go to ~/tutu/
right clic on doc2
copy
go to ~/toto
right clic
paste
go to ~/tata
right clic on doc3
move to trash
total : 15 operations maximum
+1 if the panel don't show the bookmarks
So *maximum is 16 operations*
If the destination is in the bookmarks each operation can be done with 2 operation ( go to the folder, drag n drop) so the *minimum is 6 operations
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With your feature :
go to ~/toto/
drag n drop doc1
go to ~/tutu/
drag n drop doc2
go to ~/tata
drag n drop doc3
go to ~/titi
select doc1 in the panel
choose the action (move)
drag n drop doc1
go to ~/toto
select doc2 in the panel
choose the action (copy)
drag n drop doc2
select doc3 in the panel
choose the action (remove)
total 16 operations, if the selection panel is hidden, it makes 17 operations
so the *maximum is 17 operations
*if the panel is almways displayed, and that you use drag n drop to move your file to trash (cause i don't know why you want to move something into a place before moving it into the trash when you want to move it to the trash. So the *minimum is 14 operations.
*After, for me it's not intuitive to place something into a panel when i want to copy it into another folder, but whe can discuuss of it. We have to think like the neophyt who don't want to understand how it works, so the thing have to be natural, and it's a hard problem :D. I don't say your feature would be more or less intuitive, but for the people who use nautilus every day, it could be a hard to change the customs. (but this is not because people have customs that those customs are good).
For me this feature don't give benefices, now i hope you will give you point of view on the question and perhaps it could permit to do things with less operations. Correct me where i'm wrong.
Bye
Moissant Anthony
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