Re: [Usability] New Nautilus File Exists Dialog

[Stephan Bayer <s b gmx net>]

Am Die, 2003-07-08 um 23.12 schrieb Liam R. E. Quin:
> On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 14:05, Stephan Bayer wrote:
> > I have made a Mockup for a new Nautilus File Exists Dialog.
> > See it at: http://www.onkelb.de/nautilus/
> > Your inspirations are welcome.
> 
> This dialogue box should probably not exist... if I drop an icon on top
> of another, replace the lower one, and put it in the Trash.  If I want
> to see the properties of the two files I can use the properties dlog.
> If I want to rename one, I can already do that in Nautilus.

your idea is not bad, the problem i see is that the user does not expect
this.
Next if we would solve it this way we need first a undo for file
operation like move delete etc.
Next we need a better trash. If you switch to trash you need the
information from wich location the file was deleted.
Other Problems are, what happened with file from ftp webdav or so, you
can not move this file to the trash, so you can't undo it.

> 
> I'd rather see a scrollable status log, "file xxx copied to /where,
> file /where/xxx overwritten, original saved in Trash", and if
> *really* necessary, a popup at the end to say, "136 files had duplicate
> names and were overwritten; the originals were saved in the Trash. Use
> Undo From Trash to restore them" or something.

I think it's a bad idee to inform the user after the action.
If i make a mistake i would get informed befor thinks happen.
And to decide if this was a mistake i need information,
this information provide the file exists dialog.

> 
> Similarly, Save As should be implemented as dragging into a file
> manager window, i think.  Some old useability studies at Sun appeared
> to support this quite strongly, too.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Liam

sorry for the late answer.

stephan