Re: [Usability]HIG proposal - "(Modified)"

[Janne Morén <jan moren lucs lu se>]

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 16:12, Calum Benson wrote:

> > 2. Save icon in the window border might be a really cool idea, especially is 
> > you could drag the save icon to a nautilus window to save or save as a 
> > document in a different folder. (probably needs some more in depth thought 
> > though.)
> 
> Yeah, it wasn't an entirely serious proposal, but certainly the idea of
> having a draggable icon somewhere in the window frame that represents
> the current document is something that comes up from time to time. 
> OpenWindows did this years ago and it was a popular feature of those
> apps that supported it.

Won't that need to be supported at the WM level? And won't it then
require 'locking in' to one WM only - generating somewhat justified
howls of outrage among a fairly large segment of users?


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