sane defaults

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:29, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:12, David Faure wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 18:54, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 18:22, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > This wouldn't be the case if we would have a "parent directory" item in
> > > > the file views (formerly known as "..").
> > >
> > > Yes, I think that would make navigation easier, wouldn't it? Especially
> > > in the file-dialog you need to move the mouse quite a bit to go a
> > > directory up.... and with keyboard only it's not straightforward at all.
> >
> > I think that showing a ".." directory is an outdated (xfm) concept which
> > leads to all sorts of trouble. You can select ".." and delete it together
> > with the rest of the files? You can move ".." to another directory?
> > And it's really not obvious what ".." is to most people (non-unix-geeks).
> > IMHO a modern filemanager/filedialog shouldn't show ".."
> 
> It doesn't have to be "..", it could also be "Go one level up" with a nice 
> icon...

Changing the label doesn't address all the other problems mentionned above. Bad metaphor.

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