On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 18:10 +0100, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > Hmm. Maybe a better solution would be to somehow drag'n'drop? > > Say: > - Attach xyz.pdf to e-mail: open xyz.pdf drag the window/contents of > window to new mail window > - Copy abc.gnumeric to CD - open file in gnumeric, drag'n'drop/contents > of window to CD.
You are thinking of a different problem, specifically "let me take the document I have open in front of me and pass it on to another tool". The problem I'm thinking of is, "let me see things that I placed in the file system, close to the document I have open in front of me". (If your document were a book, my solution would be to have a sticker in the book's spine that tells you which bookcase and shelf to put it in when you are done with the book.) > I am not UI designer however. This is OK. We all have intuitions as to how our tools should operate. Frequently those intuitions are correct; other times we need a larger vision - but you can learn that, as anything else. > PS. I know that DND of window will clash with moving it but maybe there > is some smart way of doing it. MacOS does this by showing an icon next to the filename in the window's titlebar: O O O [I] foobar.txt -- You can move the window by dragging the titlebar, but if you drag the [I], you instead drag the URL of the file (or something like that). *This* is a solution to your problem, but not to mine ;) Federico _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list