On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 09:46, Abe Fettig wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 10:39, Darin Adler wrote: > > > Anyway, I gather from the tone of Dave Bordoley's initial message that > > more experienced users are nudging icons and getting annoyed that a > > dialog appears, so perhaps it's time to reconsider the original design. > > Usually I get this dialog when I've started to drag an icon somewhere, > and then for some reason (like realizing the application I was dragging > it into doesn't support drag and drop) I want to back out. I know I can > hit escape to cancel the drag, but since I'm doing in the middle of a > mouse-based action it seems unnatural to have to use the keyboard. So I > drag the icon back to where it was, and release it. However, I usually > end up dropping it a few pixels away from where it was, and I get the > (unwelcome) dialog. The other place I can imagine seeing it is clicking on an icon and accadently draging it a few pixels. Would the following behavior solve the problem?: (1) No dialog ever. (2) Automatically switch to manual layout when a drag is further than about 30 pixels. --Ben
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