Drag and drop behavior

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On 9 Feb, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> ...

Others have addressed the drag-and-drop bug. As for your design 
question ...

>    Less importantly, instead of appending a not-so-attractive document 
> icon to the cursor, would it be a better solution to add a document 
> cursor while dragging to the cursor theme?
> ...

Probably not, because the thing attached to the cursor shouldn't be 
generic -- it should look as similar as practical to the thing being 
dragged, thumbnailed and/or made semi-transparent if necessary to keep 
drop targets visible. So if you're dragging text, that text should be 
attached to the cursor (Gedit already does this). If you're dragging an 
image, a semi-transparent version of that image (thumbnailed if large) 
should be attached to the cursor. If you're dragging a message from the 
message list in your mail client, a semi-transparent version of that 
row from the list should be attached to the cursor. And so on.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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