RFC: Adding Cancel to the Copy/Move/Drop popup

Alexander Kellett kelletta at eidetica.com
Mon Apr 29 12:55:52 BST 2002


On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 07:55:11AM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 29 April 2002 00:35, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> > Therefore can I suggest something. By default one sees the popup,
> > but all actions are also provided for by modifier keys, in fact 
> > the popup menu should in some way show these modifier keys. 
> 
> Hmm, that might be a bit annoying though, to have those shortcuts
> there all the time.

True, can imagine that being the case.

> > (the konqi ops popup for example currently shows no indicator for the
> >  move modifier key but does seem to have one
> Ctrl for Copy, Shift for Move, just like, ahem, Windows.

Sorry, my sentence was garbled on the way to the keyboard, what I meant
to say was that there is no _visual_ indication that you have pressed
either Shift or Ctrl-Shift unlike the "copy" action which shows a plus.

> > and there is no modifier
> >  key for the "link to", which isn't really a bad thing, but having to 
> >  search the modifier keys to find it is)
> 
> There is. Ctrl+Shift.

Guessed that just after sending the email, but given the fact
that I couldn't easily find the key its probably not quite to
intuitive as it could be.

Alex

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