[haiku-development] Re: click-through and AmigaOS mouse mode (patch)
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:00:27 +0100 CET
Christian Packmann <Christian.Packmann@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler - 2009-03-08 00:02 :
> > Like that dragging an item
> > does not bring the window to front (likely hiding the target
> > window).
> > This little missing feature alone renders drag&drop almost useless
> > in
> > Ubuntu's file manager, for example.
> Maybe they copied Windows behavior - try dragging the files over the
> "taskbar" entry for the target window. On Windows, this pops up &
> activates the target window; not only Explorer windows, but any kind
> of
> window. This enables the goodness of click-to-front-anywhere without
> disadvantages - you can control drag'n'drop operations without having
> to
> make sure your target is visible before starting the drag. This
> behavior
> is really smart, and I'd love to see this in Haiku one day.
While that's definitely a wanted feature, it's only a poor excuse of
hiding your perfectly visible drop target in the first place.
Bye,
Axel.
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