Re: Usability problem, and solution proposal

[Christian Schneider <c schneider scram de>]

Nathaniel McCallum wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 21:33 +0200, Daniel Poersch wrote:
>  
>
> > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:32:42 +0000
> > paul hendrick <paul hendrick gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I've written up an idea for a bug in nautilus usabilty. 
> > >      
> > I also would really like to see something happen here. The actual
> > procedure with hover the tasklist-entry is really annoying, it takes too
> > much time its confusing with too much windows and there are people out
> > there which use one.
> >
> > However your solution would really be nice, eye-candy and impressing.
> > But nautilus is already slow enough and I think it would be somehow
> > confusing if suddenly your windows start to fly around if you start a
> > drag.
> >
> > We should maybe think of simpler solutions (hopefully not less
> > powerful). One solution would be allow DnD on the directory button (in
> > the left lower corner). But this offers you only windows which are above
> > your actual.
> >
> > OK, an another idea:
> > When start dragging, offer a menu of all opened nautilus windows with
> > icon and title, if you hover without dropping the window raises and will
> > lower again after dropping. It should also be possible to drop directly
> > to the list element. This would be something similar to rox spring up
> > directories. This shouldn't be too hard, is it? Nautilus must already
> > keep a list of open windows, so that its activates one if you click on
> > the directory icon.
> >
> > However, I think this must be customizable, because I already know that
> > it will annoy some people. Maybe the menu should only appear if the
> > pointer gets outside the window.
> >    
>
> What about very simply this: when you start to drag, send the nautilus
> window to the back/bottom until you let go?  You don't really need to
> see where you are draging from (at least in spatial mode).
>
> Nathaniel
>
>  
I also thought about this at first but it is not a good idea. If you 
want to move a file to a subfolder of the source folder you need the 
source window.
But I have another solution in my post below.