GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 679298
Add an explicit way to move and copy files
Last modified: 2012-07-03 16:10:20 UTC
For an application that specializes in organizing files it is suprisingly hard to move and copy files around in Nautilus. You can either drag and drop or use cut/copy and paste. Drag and drop doesn't work well with touch or for those with precision pointing problems. Cut/copy is visually disconnected from paste and operates as a hidden mode and is indirect at best. It is better to have an explicit way to move things around.
Created attachment 217898 [details] [review] Add an explicit way to move and copy files Use the file chooser to select a destination directory.
A few things need to be improved. * The file chooser needs to be consistent with nautilus * We need a way for the file chooser to know about the already selected items and disallow selecting them as destinations * We need better modal dialogs that can show a title
Review of attachment 217898 [details] [review]: Looks mostly good...some comments: ::: src/nautilus-view.c @@ +5730,3 @@ +move_copy_selection_to_location (NautilusView *view, + int copy_action, + char *target_uri) Isn't this unused? @@ +5776,3 @@ + g_free (uri); + + g_list_free_full (uris, g_free); We shouldn't use gtk_dialog_run here, but show it and connect to its response signal.
Created attachment 217935 [details] [review] Add an explicit way to move and copy files Use the file chooser to select a destination directory.
Review of attachment 217935 [details] [review]: Thanks, looks good.
Attachment 217935 [details] pushed as 8feb022 - Add an explicit way to move and copy files
I guess this is fixed now, but IMO this doesn't quite go far enough towards my proposal. Often I have many nautilus windows open on multiple desktops. It would be convenient to be able to move files to the locations in those windows. As I suggested previously, the move/copy to submenus could list the locations of the open nautilus windows. Opening the file chooser to select a destination that I will then navigate to in another nautilus window seems a slower sequence of steps.
I'm unaware of your proposal. Probably best to file a separate bug since it is unrelated to this.
(In reply to comment #8) > I'm unaware of your proposal. Probably best to file a separate bug since it is > unrelated to this. filed as bug 679335 (I also commented in the DDL thread, and on the related bug 676858)
Should bug 480564 be resolved as duplicate of this?
*** Bug 480564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***