[Thunar-dev] Some minor thingies...

Harold Aling h.aling at home.nl
Thu Mar 9 00:27:04 CET 2006


> Harold Aling wrote:
>
>>
>> Doug Whiteley wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:25:07 -0300
>>>"Rodrigo Coacci" <rcoacci at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is it possible to do DnD on a Favorite? Because with my last SVN
>>>> version,
>>>>when I tryed to drag a folder into a favorite (expecting it to cp/mv
>>>> into
>>>>it) it just created another Favorite... I don't know if this is the
>>>> expected
>>>>behavior, but I think it's not very much intuitive....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>I would hazard a guess that that is the expected behaviour, because
>>> otherwise how would you add a favorite if the favorite side pane was
>>> full? There would be no empty space to drop the desired new favorite
>>> onto.
>>>
>>>
>> There can be a visual difference between dropping something between or
>> on current favorites... Where have I seen this before?
>
> This is perfectly possible, and has been done plenty of times.  However,
> it's definitely not easy to do.  Also, If I understand correctly, Thunar
> is to be an easy-to-use file manager, and this difference is definitely
> a subtlety that many people will be confused by.  Besides that, master
> mousemanship should never be a requirement to the use of a program.
>

Maybe the default action is DnD to that location and when pressing a
modifier key (ctrl,alt,shift or a combination) it get's added to the list?

-H-




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