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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KListView, Dolphin and usability
From:       "John Tapsell" <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-02-14 13:08:10
Message-ID: 43d8ce650702140508r1fe5b9dfg46356807a35d60d7 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Oh trust me, users still manage to drag files even in single click mode.

It seems to be a natural tendancy that if clicking doesn't seem to
work (e.g. they mouse cursor was just off the icon or something), then
a new user will press the button longer and harder, hence making it a
click and drag.

Anyway, I don't know either way.  But users will manage to move icons
around by accident, so please bare that in mind.

On 14/02/07, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> 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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