[Thunar-dev] Thunar-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 31

[Wit Wilinski]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:19:58 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:

> Peter wrote:
> > Here's another thought: what's the idea so far as to dragging files?  I
> > read somewhere in here that you're considering having a move/copy menu
> > just like rox?  I'm against this; I think it should be left-click drag
> > moves, right-click drag copies.  It's not hard to learn and it's more
> > efficient.
> 
> Dunno where you read that, but it's wrong. The behaviour will be like 
> you describe and like most users will expect.
> 
Actually, ROX supports both described behaviours, so what Peter wrote is a bit strange. I think there are two methods of copying / moving files, novice/average users would expect.

The first is drag-n-drop, currently supported in ROX, and the second is clipboard-like copying
(a'la Windows explorer) - that would have to be implemented instead of rox's default menu items (Copy, Rename, Move etc).

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