Review Request 110342: Dolphin Places: Make it easier to drag and drop items

[Vishesh Handa]

> On May 7, 2013, 2:18 p.m., Emmanuel Pescosta wrote:
> > > Hence this 'x' is now being set to 30% of the rectangle height.
> > Great Idea! Works great :)
> > 
> > But I found a problem with your current patch when auto-activation is enabled, folders get activated while the drop indicator is shown.
> > 
> > I changed your patch a little bit to fix this problem (removes some duplicated code too): 
> > http://paste.kde.org/739226/
> > 
> > What do you think about it?

I wasn't too sure about the activation code. Do you know what this auto-activation is?

If I'm not mistaken with your patch we would be sending signals to stop hovering and start hovering on each move. I'm not sure that's a good idea. Let me see what I can do.


- Vishesh


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On May 7, 2013, 10:45 a.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
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> (Updated May 7, 2013, 10:45 a.m.)
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> Review request for Dolphin.
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> Description
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>     Dolphin Places: Make it easier to drag and drop items
>     
>     When doing a drop, a check is performed to see if it is within x pixels
>     from the top or x pixel from the bottom of the rect. If it is, then the
>     drop is considered a drop between items.
>     
>     This x was fixed to qMax( 4, myStyleOption.padding ) which would
>     generally be 4. This is fine for some cases, but when the rectangle size
>     increases then this 4 pixels is not enough. Hence this 'x' is now being
>     set to 30% of the rectangle height.
>     
>     By default the rectangle height is 20 pixels, so x is now 6 instead of 4
>     in the default case, which does make it slightly easier.
>     
>     Also, this in-between-items check is only performed when moving from one
>     item to another. This is not good since if you enter the item and the
>     bottom, the indicator is shown, and then as to start moving it up it
>     stops showing, and then it should start showing again as you approach
>     the top edge.
>     
>     Modified the code to run the check on every mouse drag event even if the
>     hovered item has not changed.
>     
>     Both these changes combined make it much easier to drag and drop items.
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> Diffs
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>   dolphin/src/kitemviews/kitemlistcontroller.cpp c6239df 
>   dolphin/src/kitemviews/kitemlistview.cpp a2629c5 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110342/diff/
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> Testing
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> Much easier
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> Thanks,
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> Vishesh Handa
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