I disagree here totally. The conflict dialog is one of the few very usefull, easy to understand and idiot proof features. The best thing is that the three options are buttons which reduce the click-amount to the absolute minimum. No, this one the redmond guys did very well.
As Alternative one might have a look at Directory Opus, that also handles conflicts in a less elegant way and only offers an (auto) rename option. 2008/5/10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Send Usability mailing list submissions to > usability@gnome.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Usability digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: New dialog for handling file conflicts in Nautilus - UI > review request (Calum Benson) > 2. Re: Popup Scrollbar Demo (Thorsten Wilms) > 3. Re: New dialog for handling file conflicts in Nautilus - UI > review request (Andy Owen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 15:55:15 +0100 > From: Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Usability] New dialog for handling file conflicts in > Nautilus - UI review request > To: Luca Ferretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: usability@gnome.org, Nautilus Mailing List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; delsp=yes; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII > > > On 9 May 2008, at 12:20, Luca Ferretti wrote: > > > Il giorno mer, 23/04/2008 alle 23.03 +0200, Cosimo Cecchi ha scritto: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I wrote a dialog to improve the way Nautilus behaves when there's a > >> conflict between two files in a file operation. > > > > Just for reference, here[1] is the Win Vista dialog for conflicts, > > full > > description here[2]. > > Hmm, rather too much information in your face there, I would say-- so > much that they've had to use bright green arrows to point out the > important bits[3]! Think I'd have to read everything at least twice to > figure out what to do. > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > > [1] http://www.macvswindows.com/images/2/21/fileconflict.png > > [2] http://www.macvswindows.com/index.php?title=File_Management > > [3] Okay, I guess this may be a standard UI pattern on Vista... I > haven't used it enough to know... > > -- > CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team > http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 17:31:18 +0200 > From: Thorsten Wilms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Usability] Popup Scrollbar Demo > To: usability@gnome.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 10:39 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Python script: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=110623&action=view > > ?Had to fix the filename within the script: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=110648&action=view > > -- > Thorsten Wilms > > thorwil's design for free software: > http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 14:28:18 +1000 > From: Andy Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Usability] New dialog for handling file conflicts in > Nautilus - UI review request > To: Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: usability@gnome.org, Luca Ferretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nautilus > Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > > > > > Hmm, rather too much information in your face there, I would say-- so > > much that they've had to use bright green arrows to point out the > > important bits[3]! Think I'd have to read everything at least twice to > > figure out what to do. > > > > Cheeri, > > Calum. > > > > Yeah, I got faced with this dialog at work, and had no idea where to > look. I think the big problem for me was that the elements which caught > my attention were the icons, and they were both the same. Even when I'd > seen the dialog a few times, I could never remember which option was > which and would have to rescan to work out what each option meant. > > I think the key is to highlight whatever differences you can find that > would be useful for making a decision. If both files have the same icon, > then a lot of its usefulness is lost (there is the familiarity that it > gives, so I wouldn't say it is entirely useless). > > Andy > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > Usability@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > > > End of Usability Digest, Vol 49, Issue 5 > **************************************** > -- For even more security put backspaces in your passwords. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
