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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Drag and drop feedback in KDE
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       2000-01-11 21:58:00
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
>
>> >> > Summary for core-developers:
>> >> > Give the user feedback through the user interface that your
>> >> > widget is about to accept a drop. Qt has all the hooks in place
>> >> > for this, so no excuses ;-)
>> >>
>> >> Hmm, I thought the cursor would do that?
>> >
>> >Yes. The cursor shows _THAT_ a widget is about to accept a drop. But
>> > it doesn't show _WHICH_ widget.
>>
>> The widget below the cursor? :-))
>
>Yes. That one. E.g. in KMail of 1.1.2 it was a big surprise in which 
>folder your mail ended up when dropping a mail onto a folder since it 
>was hard to tell above which folder your mouse was exactly. Now it 
>highlights the folder where the mail is going to if you would drop.

Yes, but that's the same as showing the cursor in an editor in drag move, just
that you highlighte the item under the mouse. But still it is the same widget
:-))

-- 
Reggie

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