Re: [Usability] Saving to open Nautilus windows

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 11:54 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> One criticism levelled at the current File save dialog
> is that it's not very useful in its collapsed form.
> The folders it suggests aren't necessarily the ones
> you want.
> 
> Another idea that's been floating around is that there
> should be an action that lets you save to an open
> Nautilus window. The user is probably already looking
> at the folder she wants to save to. 

Have to say I find it slightly hard to believe thst this would be useful
for the majority of our users, which would surely have to be one of the
criteria for introducing such a potentially menu-cluttering feature.  I
rarely see users leave file manager windows open, other than the ones
that they've opened to locate and open documents in the first place (and
which, therefore, have most likely been saved to their final location
already).

Always worth experimenting with though, I guess...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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