Re: desktop drag-n-drop

[Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis delfi lt>]

Sean Middleditch wrote:
>  Of course, this has several usability implications; it could become a
> guess-and-find-out affair as to what packages the desktop handles
> specially (for example, if users are used to dropping a program (a.k.a.
> rpm) on their desktop to install it, they might assume dropping a source
> tarball will install it, versus just making an icon).
>
>  Also, users might not want the action to happen - for example, even if
> I know that images dropped on the desktop become my background, I might
> want to be able to add the icon to my desktop to the document instead.

drag'n'drop usually moves the object to other place. When you hold Alt 
key while dropping an object, you get a menu with choices "move here", 
"copy here", "make a link here". For certain file types additional menu 
items could be added, like "use this image as background [for this 
folder]" for images, "extract here" for archives... I can't think of 
other actions ATM. Note that this would be useful for other folders not 
just desktop.

Gediminas