Re: patch for bug 134420

[Daniel Borgmann <spark-mailinglists web de>]

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 16:39 +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> > > I think nautilus should not behave like you are proposing. If cut a 
> > > file, it should stay on the clipboard. So I can paste it in multiple 
> > > directories. This is the way cut and paste work in all other applications.
> > > 
> > 
> > I thought that is what copy was for ?
> > What would be the point of cut ?
> 
> That it will vanish from the original place.
> 
> > 
> > I quick check on IE confirms that after a cutting and pasting operation
> > the paste is then disabled.
> 
> Check in a text editor instead.
> 
> Open empty file, write line.
> Select line.
> Cut line.
> Paste line.
> Paste line.
> Paste line.
> Paste line.
> 
> see ? :)

Nautilus is already inconsistent to this behavior, because after
cutting, a file does NOT immediately vanish. It will vanish only after
it was pasted somewhere else, so it makes sense that you can paste files
only once (it acts more like a move operation). I believe that this
inconsistency was one of the reasons why the original Nautilus did not
have cut/copy/paste. As long as Nautilus is behaving like this (and I
don't see how it could behave differently in a logical way), dimming the
paste item after pasting is certainly correct.

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Daniel Borgmann <spark mayl de>