Re: Frame around the desktop when dragging

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 14:37 -0500, Vincent Noel wrote:
> Hey all,
> Recently, a nice feature was added to drag-n-drop in nautilus : a
> frame appears in the window that is the drag-and-drop target.
> While I think this is useful and adds to usability, it seems to
> confuse some users :
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165754

This is standard Gtk+ behaviour for DnD targets. I don't see why it
would be confusing.

> I'm not saying the feature should be totally disabled, but maybe it
> would be possible to disable the feature when the drag target is the
> desktop window.

It might be a bit hard to detect it for the desktop since its often
covered, but is it confusing?

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