On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:24 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
If you were to make a patch and were to test it among variuos normal users that might make the chances of such a patch acceptable if it can be proven to work well with ordinary users. My guess though that it would be confusing/frustrating for those who grew up in the windows world and even mac sinec it's so different than what they would be used to. They couldn't even ask people around them for help. It's an interesting idea though.. sri
The problem with DnD file selection (Rox does this IIRC) is that it
doesn't work with a11y at all. This isn't to say it can't be done, just
that one needs to remember users who:
1.) Have no use for "visual" references.
2.) Can't manipulate a mouse (to the degree needed for DnD).
The stereotypical "elder with arthritis and thick glasses" may have
problems operating a DnD-only file chooser, for example.
But the problem in this case is that the user didn't know to click the
"Browse" button on Gecko's file-input widget. So putting a "drag to me"
dialog on the other side of the "Browse" button wouldn't help. Perhaps
re-labeling such controls (like GtkFileChooserButton) "Drag file(s) here
or click to browse" when no file is selected would be more useful.
It's also a heck-of-a-lot easier to do :-).
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