On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:22:44 -0300 Daniel F Moisset wrote: > El vie, 28-09-2007 a las 14:17 +0200, lorenzo escribió: > > > 1. copy operation does not provide feedback. Copy is an standard > > feature provided by gtk/gnome and this is "broken". > > There are external tools that provide advanced clipboard functions, > > but this does not fix what I condider a gtk/gnome defect. > > Seeing what was proposed by several people, adn trying to fix what > looked wrong to me, I arrived to the following proposal: > > "Files which are in the clipboard, are shown with a clipboard emblem in > nautilus". [Mockup attached, right after ctrl-c] > > The advantages of this are: > * You are seeing the files you select, so the feedback is right there > * It has no distracting animations, with obscure meanings > * It uses the more or less recognized clipboard icon, so the > information is quite obvious even for the newbie. > * It does not require paying attention to the screen while copying, > because the feedback is persistent (a lot of people use the keyboard > looking at it instead of to the screen). > * You can check easily which files you copied (even closing the folder > where you selected, opening it again, and the emblems should be there) > * You can put screenshots of the feature in the gnome release notes ;-) > * It is technically easy (Nautilus already uses emblems to indicate > other file status) > > What do you think of this from an usability standpoint? if nobody shows > that it is actually a braindead idea, I'll be happy to add a nautilus > feature request I really like the persistence of the feedback. Though I don't look at the keyboard, it is no less important. Consider the question "So, what did I copy?.."/"So, what am I going to copy-paste?.." two minutes after the action, because someone interrupted you in the middle.
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