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Originally posted by Leoram
1. UR has a feature "Option to prompt for import location when importing from another application" that uses the Link/Move dialog. This is at least one use of the dialog that a second data explorer couldn't imitate.
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Apart from the add/rename in that dialogue, it would be much better implemented as a simple mouse pointer with new item name flying next to it, pressing ctrl/shift the standard modification would change the mouse pointer to "store/link", pressing enter would confirm, pressing esc cancel the whole operation. Simple as that, no need for big import dialogue.
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Originally posted by Leoram
2. There might be more that one circumstances where the user wouldn't want to clutter UR layout with another instance of the explorer.
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who says you have to have it open all the time? Moreover, standard pane can be floating/autohide .... so one could call it when he/she wants and be able to link/jump by standard windows drag/drop and shift/ctrl modification, which is not possible with the jump/link dialogue.
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Originally posted by Leoram
3. The Link/Move dialog has an idiosyncrasy of its own (to my understanding) when dealing with linking or copying stuffs.
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yes, like you choose store in Firefox and this dialogue still gives you an option to link, even though it will store anyway. So why do you list it here? Is that supposed to be advantage?
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Originally posted by Leoram
4. Other uses I can't come up with now  .
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maybe, because there is none?
So to sum it up, apart from the possibility to create an item and rename it before you import from another location, the whole link/move/import dialogue would be pretty
USELESS