--- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 09.08.2005, 20:57 +0100 schrieb > Joachim Noreiko: > > --- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > new ways of dealing with conflicts, like: > > * prefix all moved files with: [ bla-2005 ] > > I think my second mockup [1] fits very nicely with > this, plus having > renaming/prefix functionality.
I like the idea of a dialog that groups all conflicts together. The text at the top of this mockup [ http://www.geocities.com/philbull_tk/gnome_dlg_mockup.png ] is great. Both the heading and the paragraph are very clear and simple. Since I submitted my mockup to bugzilla I've been thinking about what possible actions a user might want to perform when a conflict occurs, and which ones can be feasibly performed through the conflict dialog. For a single file, the basic possibilities are: * cancel the move/copy * overwrite the existing file (I can however think of another possibility, though I admit it could seem a little peculiar. If I choose to move a file, say from old/ to new/, my intention is that it should be removed from old/. If I get a conflict, and find that the file in new/ is better and I choose to keep it, I have to go back and clean up the file in old/. However, while I might consider this a useful option, I don't see a way to simply convey it in a dialog box.) Then there's: * rename one or both files. Just prefixing the files would simplify the interface. * compare file contents (as has been said before, this is possibly the role of another application) The problems I see with the dialog suggestions are: * It's not immediately clear what happens to non-checked items * If the dialog appears at the start of the operation, it doesn't seem clear to me that the "overwrite selected" button will also copy/move the non-conflicting files. My proposal to get round this & also include some more advanced possibilities would be change the checkbox column to a "action to perform" column, and the final button to "Copy" or "Move" (whatever the user wanted in the first place). But I can't think of a clean way to interact with an "action to perform" column. A whole column of drop-down menus, would be ugly & involve far more clicking for the user. Several columns for each of "overwrite", "skip", "rename" would be cluttered and could lead to confusion. Perhaps some of you can find a way to make this feasible? Joachim ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
