Hello On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:24 +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote: > [Followup-To the Usability list] > > Hi! <snip/> > > * When dragging I currently always have to check whether a move or a > copy will be performed. I have several mounts and partitions that I > work with regularily. I now press the shift key by default when moving > files around. (A feature for advanced users.) I should not need to > care on what file system or file server a certain directory is mounted > on. This is what my system administrator is for. I just want a plain, > consistent view on all the files, directories, and devices I work > with. checking if the files to be moved are on the same fs is broken in nautilus. nautilus uses check_same_fs[1], which checks for fs type[2] and if they match moves them.
This bug manifest itself when user is moving from say, one nfs share to another. file would be moved, rather than copied. > > * The action of "dragging means moving" is more natural that "dragging > means copying". Drag & drop is a real world metaphor. In reality I > usually don't copy stuff just by taking it and moving it around. That > stuff is suddenly copied is unexpected, especially if you've used drag > & drop on the same file system before. > > There are ways to enforce moving files or getting asked about your > preferred action. But these are all power user features. The most simple > and forward action (just moving stuff around) should be the most easily > understood. > > - Sebastian > > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143746 > [1] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus/trunk/libnautilus-private/nautilus-dnd.c?view=markup [2] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/GFileInfo.html#G-FILE-ATTRIBUTE-ID-FILESYSTEM:CAPS -- Ritesh Khadgaray Ph: +919970164885 Desktop LinuX N Stuff, RHCE Software Maintenance Engineer, Pune, Red Hat ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list