Re: [Gimp-developer] Remove "you can drop dockable dialogs here" label?

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 19:03 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Gez wrote:
>
> > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/255376/gimp/GIMP-drop-icon.png
>
> In general, I like the idea, but there's an obvious usability problem
> here: this icon looks like a button, 

The open look people years ago solved this with a universal drop target
- it was a "recessed" box so did not look like a button, drawn with the
toolkit theme colours; when you dragged over it it showed wiggly lines
in it representing text, to help strengthen the affordance (and the drag
cursor changed, of course).

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