File drop popup menu removal

[Kenneth Wimer]

* David Faure <faure at kde.org> [Sep 06. 2004 12:24]:
> On Monday 06 September 2004 12:06, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > >I don't see why we would want that.
> > >Everyone copying a file onto a floppy disk is going to shout very loudly at us
> > >for losing his original file. And no, not everyone knows about Ctrl.
> > >  
> > >
> > That popup could still be a bit more clever, for instance when dragging 
> > from an ftp dir where you don't have write permissions, it's pretty 
> > obvious that the only choice is "copy". Presenting the user with two 
> > other options that he can't use is confusing, the popup has no reason to 
> > appear.
> 
> This is true. We don't show Move when the initial protocol has no support for
> deleting (e.g. HTTP), but not when this particular directory is readonly.
> However that's a bit difficult to find out, given that the drop contains only
> the source URL... Ah maybe the dnd actions could be used so that the source
> only offers Copy / Link actions when it doesn't support deleting. But I don't
> think this is supposed by Qt/XDND (it's either "all actions" or "one" AFAICS)
> The other option is to stat the source directory before showing the popup,
> but that's too slow. And the last option I can think of, is a kde-specific data
> shipped in the drag-object like we do with x-kde-cutselection (libkonq/konq_drag.cc)
> This kind of hack is frowned upon by people who try to implement compatible
> DnD with kde/konqueror though.
> 
> > A simple rule could be to copy when dropping to a different  
> > filesystem, move otherwise.
> 
> You mean not showing the popup, too, then?
> I hate this semi-clever behavior in Windows.
> Any program which tries to guess what the user wants is bound to fail.
> And any program which modifies its behavior based on something that
> is more or less hidden to the user (isn't the whole idea of mountpoints
> to *hide* the filesystem separations?) is bad behavior.

Although I can see your point I would mention that both win and mac have
this behavior, so it seems to be somewhat of a standard.

Bye,
Kenneth

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