... another small issue with the undo: it seems that rename has no redo... A.
2012/1/30 Cosimo Cecchi <cosi...@gnome.org> > 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 man ager > > -- 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 >
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