[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #3171: Better prompting in Tracker file operations
- From: "bonefish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:16:32 -0000
#3171: Better prompting in Tracker file operations
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Reporter: anevilyak | Owner: anevilyak
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: R1/alpha3
Component: Applications/Tracker | Version: R1/pre-alpha1
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: 1420 | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All | Blocking: 3296
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Comment (by bonefish):
Just to throw in an alternative idea: Since it always annoys me, when a
program performing a long task at some time in the middle of that task
asks for feedback, how about presenting all the conflicts as early as
possible, i.e. directly after the preflight phase? What I'm thinking of is
a dialog containing a tree view with all the conflicting files and
folders. The user can select items to show more information on them (e.g.
the time stamps and other attributes) and assign actions to them (merge,
replace, skip). When all conflicts have been assigned actions, the
"Continue" button gets enabled and the process can be started.
Advantages: There'll only be a single dialog at the beginning of the
process. No dialogs during the process, no unbounded number of dialogs for
prompting on a per-file basis.
Disadvantages: The dialog is more complex for simple conflicts -- though
that could be worked around e.g. by using a simpler dialog when there's
only one conflict. The preflight phase would have to do more, particularly
for possible merges.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3171#comment:14>
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