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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KListView, Dolphin and usability
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-02-14 12:41:27
Message-ID: 200702141341.28280.faure () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 14 February 2007, John Tapsell wrote:
> I like the icons *not* movable.  Just watching newbies in windows yet
> again try to double click a file and instead click-and-drag and move
> it is soo frustrating to watch :-)  They never then clean up the
> files, and you end up with files getting piled on top of each other
> over time.
Well this only tells me that double-click is very bad usability, and that
single-click (with auto-select, unlike kde3) would be better ;)

> I have never used konqueror and thought "I wish I could move this icon
> around".  
?? You don't need to wish it, you can already move icons in konqueror.
It was a highly requested feature in kde1, which we provided in kde2.

> What is the use case for being able to do so?
Logical grouping. 
Separating out the icons that you are going to move/upload/whatever, before doing so.
Splitting the "already processed" from the "not yet processed" files, when doing whatever
on the files (opening each of them in an editor and doing something)

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
 
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