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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Drag and Drop Up-One-Level
From:       Peter Postmus <p.postmus () st ! hanze ! nl>
Date:       2004-05-04 19:56:48
Message-ID: 4097F580.5020103 () st ! hanze ! nl
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Phiilipp Weissenbacher wrote:

> Jamethiel Knorth wrote:
>
>> Although I've seen a lot of good discussion on this thread, I still 
>> am thinking about the idea of dragging onto the Up-One-Level button. 
>> This is, relative to many of the other suggestions here, a simple 
>> change to make. It allows for moving files up a level, which is 
>> currently not possible, it doesn't seem to overlap with any other 
>> drag-and-drop behavior, and it seems fairly intuitive to me, as the 
>> button is representative of the directory above the current one.
>>
>> Of course, on that thought, the home button might also be a valid 
>> target. Back and forward could theoretically be, but I do not think 
>> there is value in it, because it is often very hard to remember 
>> exactly where they point, and you want to know exactly where you are 
>> moving things. Also, with them between home and up, it would be easy 
>> to accidentally hit them.
>>
>> So, what do people think of having the Home and Up-One-Level buttons 
>> be valid drop-targets for moving files? (probably also valid targets 
>> for DnD Saving, on systems that want that implemented)
>
>
> Great! And so far the best solution.
> I think if we do this with Home and Up-One-Level buttons we also 
> should this with back and forward.
> Ad the hard to remember problematic: we could avoid this by simply 
> showing the path in a tooltip or, I think a better (?) way, would be 
> to show the (last) directory in the current file view, but with focus 
> around it to make it more clearly.
>
> So you see I'd like it to be a powerful way to move files and some 
> kind of equal to the "Copy/Send to" menus.
>
> Greetings,
> Philipp


I don't quite understand the need for this feature. It's allready 
possible to move files to any directory in the the navigation panel 
(tree view). This also allows for moving files to sub-folders: by 
hovering on the desired folder, it will unfold. IMO this is more 
powerful because you can go any number of levels down or up in the 
filesystem, and it's certainly more intuitive than the cumbersome 
move/copy to menu entries.

Just my €0,02 :).

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With kind regards,

Peter Postmus

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