Re: [gnome-love] New feature

[John Kodis <kodis jagunet com>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:01:41PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 25 May 2001 09:03:22 +1200, Luke Hutchison wrote:
> > Quite simply, a file icon is added to the Save As dialog box which may
> > be dragged to
> >     (a) a File Manager window, or
> >     (b) another application.
>
> Hmmm.  Personally, I can see the benefit of a), but b) just strikes me
> as wrong. Save As does just that - it saves the document to a file.
> "Saving" to another program should (IMHO) involve cut/copy/paste or
> Bonobo-esque embedding, which removed the need for b) in the first place.

This type of drag-and-drop mechanism can be useful for dropping things
on other than standard files: for example, you could d-n-d an .mp3
file on a music player object; d-n-d a letter on a fax machine object;
d-n-d a photo on a printer object; and so on.  The widely acclaimed
OS/2 Workplace Shell (RIP)  used this style of object manipulation to
good effect.

-- John Kodis.