Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus Smoke Test --- first draft, feedbackRequest.

[David Bishop <david bishop dhs org>]

>> So, that's perhaps another point in favour of making the default
>>behaviour a link rather than a move in this case... you may just save
>> the lives of people who work in mixed-desktop office environments, or
>> who have just migrated to GNOME from Windoze!
> 
>That is correct.  On Windows (win98, win2k) a right click drag will
>create a shortcup to items being drag, but also a left click drag will
>upon releasing left button on target area will pop up a menu which gives
>the choice to either move or copy  targeted items to selected
>destination. 

Actually, no. The default behavior in Windows is thus: left-click drag will 
always do (copy/move/short cut) without asking. Right-click drag will pop up 
a menu upon release, with the default "highlighted" selection being what it 
would have done if you had left-clicked. What it does *exactly* depends on 
where you are dragging from/to.  If I remember correctly, it changes whether 
you are dragging between different disks (results in copy) between different 
folders on the same disk (results in move) or from a different folder/disk to 
the desktop (results in shortcut).  There are exceptions to every rule, and I 
think dragging to the floppy results in a shortcut no matter what, or 
something like that. You can see why I resort to just right-click drag -> 
select in all cases. I can't keep straight what it's going to do when :-)

>> As an aside, the Amiga has another interesting concept here (which it
>> doesn't quite carry through in practice, but that's beside the point)...
>> you can drag an item onto the desktop, and it will be moved there so you
>> can get at it quickly while you're working with it.  But once you're
>> finished with it, you can "put it away" again by picking an item on its
>> shortcut menu, and it quietly goes back to where it used to live in the
>> file structure.  (Much like being able to take things back out of the
>> Trash again on most desktops these days.)  It works quite nicely,
>> really.
> 
>I don't really see the advantage here.  Is it not the same has to simply
>creating a link to an item on the desktop, and then later deleting it
>manually.  I happen to do this regularly on my desktop.   




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