xffm: default name for new dirs

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at moongroup.com
Fri Jul 18 11:07:07 CEST 2003


On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:59:46 +0200
Bernhard Walle <Bernhard.Walle at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> if I want to make a new directory in xffm I have to delete first the
> default name "Neu-0" and enter a new name. Ctrl-u does not work and
> pre-selection is no good solution, we had this in a previous
> discussion.
> 
> But why this default name. Nobody names a new directory "Neu-0" so you
> have to delete this *every* time. This makes no sense in my opinion.
> Why not just a empty text field in which the user can insert the name
> he wants. This would be the most user-friendly solution in my opinion.
> 
> If the user enters nothing, then just nothing is created (at the
> moment xffm wants to delete something, this is a *bug* in my opinion).
> What do the others think?
> 

Sounds reasonable. I think I agree. Not that in this case it matters
much what I think ;-)

	Jasper



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