On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 01:13 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On 23 Apr 2008, at 22:03, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I wrote a dialog to improve the way Nautilus behaves when there's a > > conflict between two files in a file operation. > > Here you can find some screenshots: > > > > http://www.lilik.it/~anarki/media/my/gnome/file-conflict.png > > http://www.lilik.it/~anarki/media/my/gnome/file-conflict-rename.png > > Like most attempts at improving this dialog in the past, the main > problem is that it's initially pretty overwhelming to look at IMHO. > I'd like to see even more in the way of progressive disclosure, so by > default it might look more like this quick mockup: > <http://www.gnome.org/~calum/screenies/nautilus-replace.png
[snip] > - When user changes the text in the field, the Replace button becomes > "Rename", and it becomes the default button for the dialog. (That is, > will be activated when the user presses Enter.) The 'replace other > files' checkbox becomes disabled. > > - If user changes their mind, they can press Reset, which restores the > original filename to the text field. "Rename" button becomes > "Replace" again, "Skip" becomes the default button again, and 'replace > other files' checkbox is re-enabled. While that certainly sounds natural, don't the accessibility folks usually recommend against changing buttons like that? -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
