adding to kde user interface guidelines

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 26 March 2004 14:10, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> Am Freitag, 26. März 2004 09:56 schrieb Anders Lund:
> > On Friday 26 March 2004 09:41, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> > > > Drag: Move if selection is writeable. Copy if selection is read
> > > > only.
> > >
> > > I don't think the standard user is really aware of wether a
> > > selection is writeable or read only. Better choose a consistent
> > > behaviour (copy only?). In my understanding/experience d&d copies
> > > things. Moving is somewhat destructive, so better make it more
> > > complicated to achieve it.
> >
> > Kate users would not understand that. They want to be able to
> > drag-move in writable documents. The emplemtation will show a icon
> > that hints about the performed action.
>
> Mmh, same in kmail composer. I still find it strange, but there is
> some point in it. And it's consistent - KWord also works the same.
> I found one problem though: the kmail composer doesn't accept drops.
> It seems to supports attaching files only.

Fixed.

Regards,
Ingo
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