Welcome Christian, o fair Nautilus developer ;) On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > I'll attempt to summarize and respond to some of the issues > > > > Raising Windows > > > > no idea > > There is a feature request for this on bugzilla already, and code was > written [1]. > > > open location dialog spurious errors (my opinion not his) > > > > something I hope will be addressed or made irrelevant by larger changes > > I have submitted a patch for that already, which still needs cleanup. > > > Problem: A folder is a window. Unless it's a symlink, then a folder is > > multiple windows. > > Suggestion: Treat links to folders like the original folder. > > > > sounds about right, an issue to for the Nautilus developers I guess. > > No, no, no! :). We've changed the behavior multiple times forth and back Forget i said anything, quite happy to defer to you on this one and I'm sure you know the issue inside and out. > in the past because people are never satisfied. :) Dont know anyone like that > > Problem: There is no undo. > > > > Calum Benson isn't happy about it either perhaps some people need to > > come up with clear plans and help a developer implement it. again an > > issue which should be discussed with the nautilus developers. > > Rename undo doesn't seem too heavy, undoing a move or copy operation > that involves many folders and changes to the source/target directory in > a clean fashion sounds way harder. I'm interested in whether you want a > global undo (for all windows), or whether each window undo history > should be treated separately. What if you close a window? One can make > this arbitrarily complex by storing the undo history of a window inside > the metadata system, but I doubt it's worth the pain for everyday use. > "Ooops, I didn't want to rename that" might be the most common use-case. something would be better than nothing and at least lay groundwork making it easier for anyone want to improve it further Hopefully Jason will post a link to Christians comments in the forum and encourage people to help with follow up bug reports for some of the remaining suggestions. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
