On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:05:22AM +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 15:16 -0400, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 00:35 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:11 -0400, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:19 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:48 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 4, 2005 12:55 PM, Ryan McDougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:19 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I feel this is fundamentally wrong. The user should never get into a > > > > situation where they are dragging around "a selection they never > > > > dropped". See my suggestions below. > > > > > > Why? Do you have more than a feeling? > > > > Ok, the reason I feel this is fundamentally wrong is that the user > > should not be allowed to become confused about something as simple as > > copying/moving a file and that with your proposed solution would do just > > that; allow for greater opportunity to confuse people. > > > > Not that I'm saying the idea is all bad or anything, just that what > > Nautilus needs is to behave in as natural and obvious a way as possible. > > To me that argument just sounds like "its different so it will confuse > people".
In a desktop system yes, but to anyone who has ever used a Palm OS pda, this is taken for granted, you don't even think about it or realize it's happening :) Of course, under palm there isn't the concept of opening files or starting programs either. alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Backups are for people who don't pray." -- big Mike -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
