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Subject:    Re: Drag and Drop Up-One-Level
From:       Phiilipp Weissenbacher <aon.912340043 () aon ! at>
Date:       2004-05-05 17:47:52
Message-ID: 409928C8.1020606 () aon ! at
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Florian Graessle wrote:

>On Wed, 05 May 2004 14:39:49 +0200
>Phiilipp Weissenbacher <aon.912340043@aon.at> wrote:
>
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>>Peter Postmus wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>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.
>>>      
>>>
>>But if you're not in tree view you've got a problem, or not? Swithing 
>>the view to only be able to get one file up one level? I'm sorry, but 
>>this seems a bit cumbersome to me, doesn't it?
>>    
>>
>
>I couldn't agree more to what Peter wrote. If I'm not mistaken one would
>have to switch to tree view mode anyway to copy/move files which aren't
>one level up or by chance in the "navigation history". So why add
>another way of copying/moving files although this new way seems
>appropriate only in some rare occations? Users may be irritated by the
>extra choice which is actually offering just a limited number of
>possible drop targets within the filesystem.
>
>Apart from that users would have to remember the locations they had been
>browsing in order to use the "drop to left/right navigation" feature.
>Looking for the appropriate drop target in the navigation history just
>to see it isn't there and finally having to use the "normal way" to copy
>files may be very annoying and frustrating.
>
>Florian
>
You're right.
So what would you suggest to do?

Philipp
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