On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 14:24, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Rajit Singh"> > > > Regardless of whether or not you decide to copy windows' choices or not, > > why not add little graphical decals to the icons whilst they are attached > > to the pointer (being dragged)? This is something windows does that is > > definitely useful... it appends a little '+' in a square to indicate if > > the file will be copied, a little curved arrow if a shortcut'll be made > > and nothing if it will be moved. > > > > Means the decisions the file manager makes behind the scenes are less > > opaque. > > Nautilus does this, but it's not entirely obvious on the move cursor. Copy > adds a plus, move just shows an arrow. > > We really ought to have prettier cursors anyway, just to make stuff like > this obvious. I did patches to do that some time ago (urgh, over a year ago). I posted to gtk-devel but didn't get any feedback. http://www.hadess.net/files/patches/cursor/ I could update the patch for gtk2 if there's an interest. -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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