Re: PATCH for some random stuff.



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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