Re: Adaptive mode (Was: Re: Browser Mode by Default)

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On 17 Jan, 2006, at 6:32 AM, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 09:08 -0500, William Lovaton wrote:
> ...
> > Imagine you are using the List View and you have many folders in it
> > (let's say your home directory) in a way that real files are not
> > visible, located well down in the bottommost part of the window.  Now
> > suppose you want to drag a file from your desktop to your home
> > directory... there is no easy way to do that because that file won't 
> > end up in your home directory but in one of the folders located in 
> > your home directory.  And that's because you are hovering a directory 
> > no matter where you drop the file.
> ...
> Ah, yes.  FWIW, the Mac Finder has exactly the same problem, and the
> same (non-obvious) solution... you have to drop on the column headers.

Actually, from testing it in 10.3, to move something to folder X you 
can drop something in any part of X's folder window that is not text 
belonging to a subfolder or drop-savvy application. This includes the 
title bar of the window, the column headers, the scrollbars, the space 
between a subfolder's or application's name and its date, the space 
between its date and its size, and so on. Dropping on the window's 
status bar doesn't work, but that seems to be a bug. Nautilus could 
allow all of those, though recognizing a drop on the title bar would 
need help from the window manager, and recognizing a drop in the gap 
between text in adjacent columns would need help from GTK.

> Personally I'd like to see a blank row always inserted at the bottom 
> of any file manager list view (like on Windows), so there's a 
> guaranteed bit of 'background' to drop into.
> ...

That should perhaps be done for all list views, not just lists of 
files. People I watch often have trouble recognizing that they've 
scrolled to the end of a list.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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