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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Suggestion for Konquerer developers and delivering "stripped"
From:       "Rene Horn" <the.rhorn () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-11-24 19:47:15
Message-ID: b8e8c9290611241147u43894c2ev1b3dadaf5c60c065 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Why not have a drop icon that could optionally be animated?  Something
like an arrow pointing downwards overlayed on top of the folder into
which contents will be dropped.  This would be in addition to a "drop
indicator rect."

Rene

On 11/21/06, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue Nov 21 2006, Rigo Wenning wrote:
> > A bit late my suggestion about Konqi 4
> Not really. Too early, possibly ;)
>
> >  but could the Konqi developers make
> > the drag and drop a bit more visible? When dropping files on a directory, the
> > directory is not marked very much, so the risk of dropping something in the
> > directory beside is high and as we all have huge amounts of data, the
> > information will be lost. So I suggest some kind of reverse video or some
> > nice eye candy showing the target addressed by the drop.
> Yes. This is default behavior in Qt3's QIconView: the drop target is painted just as if
> it had keyboard focus, which is indeed not very visible when dragging another item (with
> a similar outline) on top of it.
>
> In Qt4, hmm, everything is still possible ;) I see a "drop indicator rect" in QListView but
> I can't get it to show up.... we can surely paint anything else we want though, things got
> much more flexible. I'll try to remember this when I come to it.
>
> --
> 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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