On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 12:55 -0300, Matthew Thomas wrote: > On 5 Aug, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Diego Moya wrote: > > ... > > Why should a conflicting copy operation destroy the old content? It > > would be much better to move overwriten files to trash instead of > > deleting them, so that if user makes a mistake she will be able to > > undo it. > > ... > > The main problem with that is: what happens when you then select the > overwritten item in the Trash and invoke the (not-yet-implemented, but > hopefully higher priority) Restore command? There's already an item in > the original location with the same name. Following your rule, the item > in the original location isn't destroyed, it goes to the Trash, at the > same time as the item currently in the Trash goes to the original > location. The two items swap places. Unless they were pictures with > different icons, in Nautilus it would appear as if nothing had happened > at all, which would be quite confusing.
Yep... once again, I suspect a working "Undo" command in nautilus is really what we're after here. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
