Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Dec 2003 22:48 UTC
A few weeks ago we published an article titled "The Great Mac OS X 10.4 Wish List", detailing a few personal wishes for the next version of OSX. Later I learned that quite a few Apple engineers read the article and so it felt good that the time spent writing the article was not just a voice in the void. A reader emailed me a few days ago asking me to do the same for other OSes and DEs. So here is my personal wish-list for a future version of Gnome. Please tell us about your own Gnome wish list in the comment section provided.
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When I use Nautilus I am afraid it may overwrite something or crash while I am doing a large file(s) transfer.
My main problem with the way copy and paste works is the following scenario.
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If I am copying/moving a folder from one location to another and the transfer craps out. I now have two folders with the same name the original that still contains some folders and files, and the new one that has the files and folders that were successfully copied. I click on the original folder and do cut and paste it to where the new folder is.
Instead of preserving the data that was already copied it overwrites it!!!!
I have lost so much data because of this one thing, I don't think Konqueror does this, and I know that this does not happen in XP.
I now pretty much use an xterm or konqueror for such an operation.
The other thing is when copying to a folder with nautilus I have to refresh before I can paste.
Both things I have mentioned about Nautilus are reproducable.
Also I don't want Nautilus drawing my desktop. If I disable it with GCONF editor, then Nautilus takes longer to load. I can't win.
After all these complaints I still love GNOME more than other environments or WM, weird.
Also I think kwin is faster than metacity and that is why we sometimes get those crappy redraws.