Re: File/Folder selection area in list mode.

[John Keller <gnome johnkeller com>]

Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
> Wouldn't it be reasonable to accept drops anywhere on a Nautilus
> window, including outside the list? Except for the address bar, which
> might accept text, nothing else in the window seems to have a need for
> specific drops. So I should be able to drop files on the toolbar and
> have them copied inside the directory.

Well, there is one class of object inside the window that should be a 
drop target: the icons in the list. ;-) Sub-folders and applications, 
for specific examples.

It would arguably be worse than the current situation if Nautilus went 
from allowing drops into icons displayed (at the loss of being able to 
drop into the folder itself), to allowing drops onto itself (and losing 
the ability to drop onto its contents).

Windows and icons (of folders, at least) represent the same object. 
Nautilus does a relatively decent job keeping those two things tied 
together. What this thread - and more importantly, the bug - are talking 
 about is adding to that consistency, not subtracting from it.

- John