Re: [Usability] dragging documents/document windows

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

There was brief talk about adding something to the WM spec about that,
so a drag handle could be put onto the WM frame. Bit tricky though,
especially when you start worrying about remote applications.

-Rob

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 18:00 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Sometimes I download a document, which is auto-opened in Evince and
> realize that I want to move it to the trash, because it isn't as
> interesting as I hoped. Now I have to move it into the trash. This isn't
> possible, since there is no drag handle. Therefore I have to go to the
> folder containing the document and move it to the trash using nautilus.
> I wonder whether adding drag handles is a good idea and how they could
> be integrated into the GUI. Nautilus HEAD has drag handles for it's
> folders (the location button), but SDI apps don't seem to have it.
> It would be nice if there could be put up a policy on document dragging.
> 
> On a sidenote: I've played with libwnck to use the tasklist button as
> drag/drop proxy, but dragging seems to be more complicated than
> dropping, since (GTK+ limitation?) doesn't allow to set drag proxies.
> Help appreciated.
>