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



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.
--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/




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