Usability of using icons to illustrate DnD

[Cristian Tibirna]

Hello

This little rant is prompted by a recent change in KMail that makes so that 
DnD operations on messages doesn't use the default grey rectangle anymore, 
but a suggestive icon.

My pet peeve with this new little feature (and I believe it extends to all DnD 
operations in KDE) is that the suggestive icon gets centered to the mouse 
pointer. This is annoying because this makes very difficult to target tiny 
drop zones. The pointing pin of the cursor arrow (associated with a moving 
mouse) is in the middle of the suggestive icon and this makes it difficult to 
point with.

It should be better, IMHO, if the icon would be displaced to the right-down of 
the cursor (for a left to right language) or to the left-down (for a right to 
left language). Is there any reason agains this improvement? If not, is it OK 
for me to investigate it (I believe, without looking, that I'd have to look 
into Qt) ?

Thanks

CT