xffm: default name for new dirs

edscott wilson garcia edscott at imp.mx
Fri Jul 18 16:26:03 CEST 2003


On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 04:07, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 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 ;-)

I think that in this particular case, preselection should be on, since
the history combo is in effect disabled. Thus any confusion about this
being a bug will be erased. I will change that in a while, as soon as I
sync my CVS tree.

regards,

Edscott

> 
> 	Jasper
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