RE: gmc dndrop ??

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

Annoying arrows.......
One of the things I HATE about windows is those shortcut arrows..... 
The people that make the programs spend time creating good icons only to
have a dumb arrow placed on top.....

I kind of like the Mac way of showing something is a link..... changing the
font to italics...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jason Pellerin [SMTP:jasonp@pobox.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 07, 1999 11:40 AM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: gmc dndrop ??
> 
> At 01:19 PM 1/7/99 -0600, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> >
> >> Still, I can run it (almost) OK but if when I do a drag and drop of
> >> a directory on my desktop, it actually COPIES recusively the whole
> directory 
> >> under ~/desktop !! Is that a bug ... or a feature ???
> >
> >It is performing the DnD "copy" operation (the default), if you want
> >just to "link", you want to use control-shift-drag.
> >
> >Do you think this scheme is broken?  Do you think a different set of
> >keybindings should be used?
> 
> If I might weigh in with an opinion--
> 
> I think the result of a DnD to the desktop should be a configurable
> option,
> defaulting to creating a link for directories & executables, copying for
> anything else. And the mouse pointer should change (a la Win9x and Mac) to
> reflect what's going to happen, eg, if symlink icons have little arrows in
> them, show a similar little arrow in the pointer.
> 
> my .02,
> 
> JP
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