Re: [Usability] The ``Replace File'' dialog should display the two file sizes, times, etc.

[Diego Moya <turingt gmail com>]

On 04/08/05, Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org> wrote:
> > You should reverse this order. If the text says "bigger and newer" and
> > you overwrite, you should end with a file bigger and newer.
> 
> Exactly. That's what my proposal does. The toggle button is checked by
> default if active by default if the size of the file to be copied is
> bigger than the size of the original ("existing") file. Dunno whether
> that's the right condition, we have to check this.

I would chose "newer than the existing file" as the condition for
default overwriting. All files aren't text files, and Size is too
arbitrary to use as heuristics (for example, in images it depends on
the compression level used).