Hi everyone! On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 20:57 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > I would say there is a third way: > > c) check for conflicts before performing any file > operations, and ask the user for decisions on the > conflicts first (and as with b, offer a UI that can > potentially deal with all future conflicts)
This is actually how directory synchronization software works. A colleague of mine developed one such program, and released it as free software: http://jfilesync.sourceforge.net/ . It is Java, but since it contains some ideas that are relevant to this discussion, I thought it was a good idea to mention it. In my opinion, directory copying could be seen as a particular case of a more general directory merging/synchronizing operation. Having this functionality directly in Nautilus would be, of course, very valuable. Cheers, M. S. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
