[Thunar-dev] Some UI Ideas

[Biju Chacko]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> I agree with Botsie that it's important to be consistent here. If we 
> choose b) then every folder DnD operation will open a new window, no 
> matter if its performed on the location bar, the main view, the 
> shortcuts sidebar or the treeview sidebar.

I think the treeview should be an exception. The logical thing there 
would be to just display the node's children if they're not visible 
otherwise don't do anything.

Here consistency negates the benefits of a treeview.

hmmm, no let me correct myself.

In a larger sense, this is *more* consistent. In general, the user would 
expect that DnD or DnH would cause something to happen under the 
pointer. However, carrying the discussed behavior to the sidebar would 
cause either something to happen only on the main pane or at best to 
both panes. Thats contrary to what would happen elsewhere.

The implication is that not only would DnH on the treeview cause only 
the treeview to expand but DnH to a shortcut/bookmark should do nothing 
at all.

Hope I make sense.

-- b