Usability of using icons to illustrate DnD

[Marc Mutz]

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On Saturday 27 April 2002 19:06, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
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> 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.
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Sorry, I don't buy this. First, the mouse cursor changes over drop zones (or 
rather over non-dropzones) and second, the current drop zone shows a "current 
item" frame. That makes it dead easy to hit the right target. I have yet to 
hit the wrong target.

My vote goes to "let's keep the current behaviour".

Marc

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Marc Mutz <mutz at kde.org>
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