Re: [HIG] Re: Viewports or equivalent

[Michael Toomim <toomim OCF Berkeley EDU>]

Seth Nickell wrote:
> The current feedback from this operation is poor and seems to suggest
> that the operation will allow you to position windows (when in fact it
> does not). You're correct in observing that this is a source of
> confusion and poor usability. Direct manipulation in the form of a move
> with no feedback that "something else will happen" (for example, folders
> highlight when you drop over them to indicate that the icon will not
> move to that position on the screen, it will drop into the folder) means
> "move this object on the screen to the place where I released the
> mouse". This needs to be fixed...

Sounds like highlighting the drop workspace in some fashion would be a 
good idea (in the same way that folders highlight when you're dropping 
something into them).

I entered this into bugzilla: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90869

Michael