Re: Icons during dragging (should have text part IMHO)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:13, Ralph Aichinger wrote:

> One thing is the "feel" of dragging icons, this is maybe my largest
> "problem" with Nautilus now.
> 
> To me dragging simply does not feel quite right yet. I think part 
> of the problem is that activating the Icon gets lots of feedback (good)
> but the "state change" to "dragged" is not really visible. I.e.
> if you drag the Icon just for a few pixels you are never quite sure
> if you've really "got" it, or just activated it. Or so it feels
> to me. The cursor form switch simply does not do it for me, on some
> unconscious level. Might sound strange, but Windows XP and -- most of 
> all -- classic MacOS work much much better in that respect IMHO.

I don't have a classic MacOS here, how does it work there? I agree that
we could do this better. 

> Maybe it is just the shape of the dragging cursor, that says nothing to
> me and somehow changes the "center of gravity" and shape of the cursor
> in some strange way. I've been using it for so long, but I still have
> no idea what this "right angle" shape represents. Or does it represent
> something?

I must say I don't have any idea what it represents either.

> *And* it might be part of the problem, that the icon text is not 
> displayed while dragging (or is that a preference I messed up?).
> This is not good IMHO, because the icon text to me is part of
> the icon, and most important: The *shape* of the icon changes, if
> the text is not displayed while dragging. I really wish the text
> part of the Icon would be displayed.

I'm not sure why this isn't done. We could at least show the text for
the primary dragged icon.

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