RE: Default drag and drop behavior

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

How about this:
Switch the left and middle buttons.
So left dragging prompts you.
Power users can use the middle button.

In a gmc window there is a menu called "D&D" or something like that.
It will have 3 radio menu items that control the middle button default.
COPY
MOVE
LINK

This setup is nice because people who dont know what they are doing get a
nice little prompt. And the people who do, can easily switch between modes
verry quickly.

Say I want to create a bunch of links on my desktop from different
directories. All I do is select LINK, and then start middle draging stuff to
the desktop. Then lets say there is some copying to be done, I can change
mode to copy and copy a bunch of stuff over. 

So the excelerator works for the people who know how to use it, and the left
click works for people that dont.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jochem Huhmann [SMTP:joh@unidui.uni-duisburg.de]
> Sent:	Friday, March 05, 1999 2:12 PM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: Default drag and drop behavior 
> 
> On Fri, 05 Mar 1999 14:56:11 EST Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 02:39:37PM -0500, Stu Smith was heard to say:
> > > I like the idea suggested earlier:  Pick the safest possible option
> for
> > > newbies, and have this controlled in a .conf file somewhere so that
> others
> > > can adjust it to their liking.
> > > 
> > > >From what I've read thus far, I think it's safe to assume, for
> various
> > > reasons, that a "copy" operation is the safest options that provides
> the
> > > best functionality for the user.  All of the others perhaps should be
> an
> > > option in linuxconf or gnome-linuxconf somewhere...
> > > 
> > 
> >   I agree, except that I think the 'safest option' is probably linking
> for
> > the desktop and copying otherwise.  The desktop isn't a normal directory
> and
> > I don't think we need to treat it as one.
> 
> What about treating the desktop special in the one and only way, that
> any d&d action first gives a menu? This way one could choose what to do 
> and, more important, one knows what happens ;-)
> 
> 
> 	Jochem
> 
> 
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