On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 17:41 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > I'm also a little surprised that the GNOME designers that Cosimo asked > would have said the multi-level undo was overkill for a file manager > -- Apple certainly thought it was important enough to add it to the > file manager in OS X 10.7, where previous versions only had single > level undo IIRC. (On the other hand, I suppose you could argue that if > it took them 10 years to add it…) > > I couldn't tell you how often I've ever used it in 10.7, admittedly, > but when it comes to having the same function behave differently in > different applications, you want to be 100% sure it's the right thing > to do, especially when it's a function that directly manipulates > people's files.
Hi Calum, Admittedly, I haven't tried Finder on OS X 10.7, so I can't really tell how they ended up implementing it; there are several reasons why I chose a single action for Nautilus: - you probably need a different UI than a menu. Time Machine comes as an example, but that also requires a support from the lower layers of the OS we don't currently have - if you add multiple levels of undo, you would like to keep track of the operations happening on the file system, and invalidate past actions accordingly. This can be complex and is missing completely from the current implementation - I think it's always better to start small and then find solutions to more complex use cases than doing the opposite, especially when the feature is complex and involves user's data That being said, nothing in software is written in stone...I am not against the idea of being able to freely undo any past transaction per-se, but it would require way more effort, both on a technical and from a design point of view. Cosimo -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
