Re: [Usability] Clickable area masks on icons with transparency?

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

From: Steven Garrity <steven silverorange com>
> One of the first things I noticed about the GUI (after being pleasantly 
> surprised by the overall refinement) was the clickable “holes” in icons. 
>
> It seems that the visual transparency of icons also serves as tactile 
> transparency. You can only click on non-transparent portions of the 
> icon. In theory, this sound ok. If you click on a folder, it is 
> selected, but if you miss the edge of the folder, it is not selected. In 
> practice, this turns out to be confusing and annoying. 

I think this is a bug and should be fixed when it occurs. I believe this has 
been fixed in recent versions of nautilus (the gnome file manager if you are 
not familiar), though I would need to check. Thanks for bringing up the 
issue. 

dave