Re: DragNDrop to an unopened folder (without springs) and a nice accessibility side-effect

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:05:22AM +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 15:16 -0400, Kevin C. Krinke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 00:35 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:11 -0400, Kevin C. Krinke wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:19 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:48 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> > > > > > On Apr 4, 2005 12:55 PM, Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:19 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I feel this is fundamentally wrong. The user should never get into a
> > > > situation where they are dragging around "a selection they never
> > > > dropped". See my suggestions below.
> > > 
> > > Why? Do you have more than a feeling?
> > 
> > Ok, the reason I feel this is fundamentally wrong is that the user
> > should not be allowed to become confused about something as simple as
> > copying/moving a file and that with your proposed solution would do just
> > that; allow for greater opportunity to confuse people.
> > 
> > Not that I'm saying the idea is all bad or anything, just that what
> > Nautilus needs is to behave in as natural and obvious a way as possible.
> 
> To me that argument just sounds like "its different so it will confuse
> people".

In a desktop system yes, but to anyone who has ever used a Palm OS pda,
this is taken for granted, you don't even think about it or realize it's
happening :)  Of course, under palm there isn't the concept of opening
files or starting programs either.

alan

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