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Idea #792: CTRL+Z on desktop and Nautilus



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Written by omidmottaghi the 29 Feb 08 at 03:52. Category: Look and Feel.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Pressing CTRL+Z on Desktop and Nautilus undo the last action.
for example when moving a file, CTRL+Z move back that file.
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Greyor wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 04:25
That is a good idea. I've had some issues with that lately, wishing for (and not realising it was absent) an Undo feature.

Jeff Dougson wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 11:22
But -please- do not implement it like it's done in Windows. Ctrl+Z in a file manager should always tell you what it's going to undo first and ask you to confirm. The menu item should also say "undo XYZ".

In Windows it's hard to predict what operations can actually be undone. Sometimes if you press Ctrl+Z thinking you're going to undo some operation, it will undo another one you performed ages ago. It can be hell to figure out what you just destroyed.

bakalegum wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:00
see
http://diuf.unifr.ch/pai/people/broccoa/dev/nautilus-patched/

bradbrownjr wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:05
A most favorite feature in Windows

kenden wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 12:03
This is bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167501
It could make it to Gnome 2.24.

Video of the current Work In Progress:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G--PBDz3hEs

ethana2 wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 07:13
Jeff nailed it; do what he says. Voted up.

cosmic wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 16:17
related, loosely:
cosmic wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 16:19
Whoops, can someone fix my unclosed . Seriously, why isn't there an edit own comment permission.

cosmic wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 16:20
Ah guess that fixed it. I'll try again.

related, loosly: #2050

DarwinAwardWinner wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 04:29
Isn't this a feature of the new GVFS, which is included in Hardy?

FuturePilot wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 05:22
GVFS will implement this, yes. But it's not implemented yet. The framework for it is there though, so we may see this in Ibex.

neomenlo wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 21:21
I can say pretty certainly that this is being implemented in the new 8.04. I haven't tested it myself, but you can see that it is implemented.

'Hardy Heron Beta brings you the latest and greatest GNOME 2.22 with lots of new features and improvements, such as a new Nautilus that uses GVFS as its backend. GVFS makes it possible to fix shortcomings of Nautilus such as the inability to restore files from trash, pause and undo file operations.'
I assume that there will be a CTRL + Z hotkey for it.

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta


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