[Thunar-dev] Some UI Ideas

[Biju Chacko]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> Biju Chacko wrote:
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> | * 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.
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> 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...

Obviously, the timeout should be sufficient that it isn't triggered 
accidentally.

-- b