2008/8/28 Victor Jimenez Jaimez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi! > > There's something I find missing in Gnome compared to when I used to work > with Windows XP (which, overall, I hated). In most file managers, when I > want to save or paste a file to a directory that already contains a file > with the same name, the file manager shows a dialog box asking if I really > want to overwrite the file or not. In windows XP (and in KDE I think), the > file manager also gives you information about the file, its size and the > date and time when it was modified for the last time. It helps a lot in > order to be sure that the file you are overwriting is older that the one you > want to save or paste. > > But in Nautilus no information of that kind is shown. The application only > gives you the options, not the information. To be sure that what you're > doing is safe for your data, you have to close the dialog box and check the > properties of both files in the contextual menu (right-cliking on both > icons). It makes file managing deceptive and, hence, less secure and slower. > > I don't think it'd be very complicated to fix, isn't it?
It's a known issue, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47893 , specially read the last comment. > Thank you. It's really the only one thing about Nautilus (and Gnome, for > that matter) that I find annoying. > the only one? you're lucky :-) ...
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