Re: [Usability] Query Drag - right instead of middle Click

[Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>]

Am Donnerstag, den 24.07.2008, 15:01 +0100 schrieb Calum Benson:
> On 24 Jul 2008, at 14:09, Andy Owen wrote:
> 
> > In the HIG there is a section on the Query Drag:
> >
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-mouse.html.en#drag-drop-query
> >
> > I'm proposing that we change it to a right button drag.
> 
> That's what it always used to be, but then Nautilus decided to do it  
> differently (I forget why) and everyone followed suit...

I read through the old Nautilus ChangeLogs, and found an entry back in
2001:

2002-11-28  Alexander Larsson  <alexl redhat com>
	(...)
        * libnautilus-private/nautilus-icon-container.c:
        query-drag with middle button. Open context menus faster.
(#46276)
        Patch by Marco Pesenti Gritti.

The gist of the associated bug report [1] (quotation by Alex Larsson):

“For two-button mice Alt-drag is already availible. Query-dragging is a
seldom used feature that should not impede on usage of the context
menu.”

best regards,
 Christian Neumair


[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46276

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Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>