Re: no more right click + drag?

[dave <bordoley msu edu>]

On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 12:10, George Farris wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 20:42, dave wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 16:34, Alan wrote:
> > > I just got gnome2.2 installed on gentoo and am wondering if the right
> > > click + drag has been removed in nautilus?
> > > 
> > 
> > It's middle click now...this makes popup menus faster and less prone to
> > error.
> > 
> > 
> 
> This of course is completely false.  

No this is really true, by not having right click drag, context menus
appear on mouse down and this prevents accidental drags when a user is
trying to get a context menu (which a far more common case than context
draggin).

> 
> What makes something easy for one person is hopelessly difficult for
> someone else.  These types of things should be configurable.  Many
> people have disabilities and having a major component such as a mouse
> tied down in function is inconsiderate at best.
> 
> GNOME probably needs to rethink this one.

yes this does somewhat suck for mac users and users of two button mice,
but imo context draggin is only useful because we don't have some sort
of accessible drag and drop (eg. pick up and drop) in the menus.

dave