Re: GMC feedback / comments

[Federico David Sacerdoti <fds offm62 wuh wustl edu>]

Hi,

I want to say that I agree with George about the behavior of gmc
drag&drops. A "move" should not be the default action when a file is
dragged from gmc to the desktop. 

My desktop is where I put things for easy access, I want items on my
desktop to be links to files located on other parts of the drive. It would
be easiest if a drag&drop from gmc made a link from the desktop icon to
the file in the fs tree. 

Users should be able to easily link files to their desktop even if they
dont have permission to move them. The best way to make this easy is to
have gmc do the linking on a drag&drop.

Take care,
-FDS


On 3 Mar 1999, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:

> 
> When I drag something from the window onto the desktop there seems to
> be no way to drag it back into the window... which brings me to the
> worst thing (in my eyes): When dragging something onto the desktop a
> move is the wrong operation imho. Putting something on the desktop
> should be a *link* and if I delete the icon on the desktop only the
> icon should disappear - not the data belonging to it. I think it is
> very dangerous if one may lose sensitive data by an accidental drag &
> drop maneuver...
>