[Thunar-dev] Some UI Ideas

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Biju Chacko wrote:

| * When you DnD a file to a folder in the icon view and hold it
| there without releasing the mouse key, what should be the correct
| behavior? (a) do nothing (b) open up a new file manager window
| showing that folder (c) navigate to that folder.
|
| a is least confusing, but is also least useful. b is more
| consistent with a spatial metaphor c is more consistent with a
| browser metaphor
|
| I'd suggest that either b or c should be chosen because I think it
| provides a fairly powerful way to quickly DnD between widely
| disparate parts of the filesystem.

I like b/c in principle, but it sounds like it might be easy to
trigger by accident and cause quite a bit of confusion.  If there's a
way around that, or if it isn't really as confusing as I think it will
be, then by all means...

~    -brian
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