GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 620598
Undo info bar after drag and drop into archives
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:13:51 UTC
Nautilus supports seemlessly adding contents to an archive simply by dropping an object onto the archive. While this really is a great function it is also something completely confusing to unexperienced users, especially if one _accidently_ drops a file onto an archive. Please add a confirmation dialog to this drop action, possibly with a "don't show in future" check box that explains what is happening when an object is dropped onto an archive. regards sven
I wouldn't simply call this an enhancement. Ubuntu is gaining more and more popularity and momentum, and is actually becoming somewhat of a "mainstream" operating system, and as such it is being used by more and more "dummy users". And for these unexperienced users, the "add to archive" drop feature is completely confusing at first notice. Please do not simply downgrade the importance of this! Surely, for a programmer familiar with nautilus, adding a confirm dialog to this feature should be very easy to implement in a few coding steps. Please do not act from the standpoint of the super linux admin developer geek who reinstalls his system twice a month. At least acknowledge that this "feature" can seem like a bug to less technical users. I'd code the change myself if I would be a programmer: Unfortunately, I'm only admin and have no skills in GTK programming. Regards Sven
Thanks for the report Sven. I'm not sure quite how big a problem this is. The action is indicated by the usual cursor icon. Plus, it's a non-destructive action, so it doesn't do much damage per se. That said, this behaviour may not be particularly discoverable for an inexperienced user. I'm generally not a big fan of confirmation dialogs. The best thing would be to offer an undo option. We could display an info bar after something has been dragged to an archive: +------------------------------------------------------------+ | File added to archive [Undo] [x] | +------------------------------------------------------------+ We're in the process of implementing undo functionality, so this should be possible. What do you think?
I've read about the planned Undo-feature for nautilus. Great! if this will be implemented. Displaying some kind of info afterwards sounds fine to me, too :) i'd say, it is a problem, because: i "discovered" this feature while in "list view", with one folder expanded that contained archives. I then tried to move a file into the expanded folder by dropping it onto the list of files (archives) for the expanded folder (wrong, I know now that I have to drop on the folder itself), and then, my file was "gone" :( As i'm curious i realized nautilus might have actually moved the file _into_ one of the archives, but this is a notion you definitely cannot expect to get from a less technical user, so it is a problem, as users might start panicking where their files have gone, they might never realize what happened. Well, enough babbling. I'm fine with a notification, and if undo is coming that will solve a lot of trouble for all the newbies currently discovering ubuntu! :) Regards Sven
Great! Confirming and renaming for clarity. Thanks for the report. :)
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