Re: What about these (old/annoying) bugs ?

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

> I looked into this one, and it seems there is currently no easy way to
> determine if a file resides on a read-only filesystem.
> At the moment all DnD operations with the desktop as target default to
> move. DnD between "real" dirs check if the files live on the same fs -
> if they do, the action defaults to move, copy if they don't.
> The same_fs() check isn't applicable for the desktop at the moment as it
> represented by a "special/symbolic" uri, for which this check isn't
> defined. I'm not sure if it should be.
> It would be nice if the action for files which aren't writeable by the
> user never defaults to move as it is guarantied to fail. So it should
> probably be tested if the dragged files (or the first one of them and/or
> their parent directory) is write/delete-able for the user, and adjust
> the action accordingly. Unfortunately this test needs to be really
> tight, as it is called on every mouse movement while a drag is in
> progress to adjust the mouse pointer accordingly.

Another important thing is that dnd of files from an FTP server or a USB
storage media to the desktop should also default to "copy" instead of
"move", although the sources are read-only.

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Julien Olivier <julo altern org>