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Bug 676432 - have a way to create a folder with selected items
have a way to create a folder with selected items
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-05-20 16:24 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2012-05-25 21:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Add a way to create a new directory from a selection (9.20 KB, patch)
2012-05-20 21:09 UTC, William Jon McCann
accepted-commit_now Details | Review
Add a way to create a new directory from a selection (9.88 KB, patch)
2012-05-21 15:53 UTC, William Jon McCann
committed Details | Review
Simplify the label text for the new folder and document items (2.77 KB, patch)
2012-05-21 15:53 UTC, William Jon McCann
committed Details | Review

Description William Jon McCann 2012-05-20 16:24:44 UTC
One of my favorite features in another OS is the ability to select a bunch of items and then create a new folder with them in it.

Furthermore, it is offered as the default action at the top of the context menu. We offer the ability to open a bunch of things in an app. Which I somehow doubt is often that useful.

The action is something like:
"New folder with selection (2 items)"
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2012-05-20 21:09:15 UTC
Created attachment 214518 [details] [review]
Add a way to create a new directory from a selection
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-05-21 14:47:42 UTC
Review of attachment 214518 [details] [review]:

Thanks Jon, looks good and works great!
The only thing I don't like is the placement of the new action in the UI - we indeed could do better with the "Open With..." part of the context menu, but I feel like this action is a bit out of place as the first one in the menu, and would conceptually belong below among the "Copy/Move/Rename" options. Also, your patch doesn't seem to add this action to the window menu.
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2012-05-21 15:53:51 UTC
Created attachment 214566 [details] [review]
Add a way to create a new directory from a selection
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2012-05-21 15:53:53 UTC
Created attachment 214567 [details] [review]
Simplify the label text for the new folder and document items

Create is really the understood verb here I think. Having a shorter
label makes it easier to read and more easily accommodates the
longer new folder with selection action.
Comment 5 William Jon McCann 2012-05-21 16:02:11 UTC
Attachment 214566 [details] pushed as 9402432 - Add a way to create a new directory from a selection
Attachment 214567 [details] pushed as dee690d - Simplify the label text for the new folder and document items
Comment 6 Piotr Drąg 2012-05-21 16:39:23 UTC
_("New Folder with Selection (%d Items)" string should have ngettext plural forms.
Comment 7 William Jon McCann 2012-05-21 17:06:08 UTC
It is never singular though.
Comment 8 Piotr Drąg 2012-05-21 17:23:05 UTC
Many languages have different forms for plurals, e.g. different for 2 and different for 3<. There is a page explaining it quite thoroughly on wiki:

https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines/Plurals
Comment 9 William Jon McCann 2012-05-21 19:07:19 UTC
Oh, thanks. Should be fixed now hopefully.
Comment 10 Luca Ferretti 2012-05-25 21:38:49 UTC
New labels ("New Folders with Selection...") miss the _ for mnemonic accelerator.

Could you please fix it (ensuring it's unique, of course)?