Re: document icons as DND sources

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 21:01 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 10.06.2008, 13:10 +0100 schrieb Calum Benson:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 20:30 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote:
> > 
> > > Has anyone considered having the
> > > tabs work like the breadcrumbs currently do in Browser mode, where they
> > > can be dragged and dropped as files, or have files dropped into them, to
> > > quickly manipulate files? It would be a nice boost to functionality, and
> > > at least the dragging part should be relatively simple to implement.
> > 
> > To generalise that idea, what you're really talking about here is having
> > some part of any window (e.g. the icon in its tab or titlebar) act as a
> > proxy for the document(s) it contains.  Sun's OpenWindows desktop used
> > to do this quite extensively[1]; MacOS X still does it today in a rather
> > more half-hearted fashion.
> >
> > 
> > [1] <http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-2901/6jc3a4lqj?l=en&a=view>
> > [2]
> > <http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/20/quick-tip-window-title-bar-icon/>
> 
> I am a huge fan of DND concepts, and making icons represent documents is
> totally intuitive from a user perspective, and a major step forward.
> 
> If this is adopted, it should be done across the entire desktop. I often
> wanted to to directly trash a downloaded PDF documents, or move it to a
> particular folder.
> 
> Some random notes:
> 
> * [If we re-use the Sun concept]: Where to place the icon / drag
> handle. The RHS of the toolbar, or an area overlapping both the menu bar
> and the toolbar seem to be a good choice - where we put a spinner for
> file and web browsers:
> 
> [ file edit ... ] | ******
> | T O O L         | *icon*
> | B A R           | ******

I quite like the look of 

http://tango.freedesktop.org/Window_Experiments


> 
> 
> * What other drag handles can we come up with. For instance, window
> lists could also be used as a drag source.
> 
> * What actions to offer. move/copy DND is fine, but for PDF documents we
> may also offer dedicated file operation shortcuts on right-clicking
> (Trash, Cut, Copy).
> 
> It would be amazing if you do some UI studies how this could actually
> look, then we can discuss about getting this into GNOME. :)
> 
> best regards,
>  Christian Neumair
> 
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> Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>
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