Re: Usability problem, and solution proposal

[Christian Schneider <c schneider scram de>]

David Christian Berg wrote:

> > 1)
> > We provide a way of moving the window under the mouse to the top or the 
> > bottom. What about using the right mouse key for this. So a drag would 
> > work in the following way:
> >
> > Start drag with holding left mouse button on the source file. Then you 
> > can click the right mouse button to move the source window to the bottom 
> > of the window stack. So you get a full view of the target window. In the 
> > same way you could use the right mouse button to bring the target window 
> > up if you see at least a part of it.
> >    
>
> Combine this with the window list idea of Nathaniel... right click
> enables the list (which should include desktop btw) instead of moving
> the window down... thinking about it. Maybe if you could just drop a
> file directly onto a nautilus window in the window list that would make
> sense and serve the same purpose. it would also be more convinient for
> other programs if you didn't have to wait until they pop up after a
> while of hovering above the button.
>  
Hmm .. I don´t like this idea too much. A window list is not spatial. So 
you loose the advantage that you know where on the screen your folders are.
The taskbar already contains such a list so it is also a duplicate. What 
about using the right click while dragging over the taskbar to open the 
corresponding folder window without the delay? So we have the best of 
both suggestions.

>  
>
> > 2)
> > We provide a kind of a visual clipboard. When you start the drag the 
> > clipboard appears at the right bottom of the screen. You can then drag 
> > the file to the clipboard and drop it there. Then you bring the target 
> > folder up and drag the file from the clipboard to the target folder.
> >
> > What do you guys think about these suggestions. I think they could even 
> > both be implemented. If you want I can also draw some mockups.
> >    
>
> well, ctrl+x ctrl+v is essentially the same and quite a bit faster.
>
>  
I myself use this quite often but there are people who want to only use 
the mouse for this task.

greets

Christian Schneider

http://www.liquid-reality.de