GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 87765
Can't drag wanda with left mouse button
Last modified: 2005-01-02 14:11:17 UTC
You can reposition many other panel objects by dragging and dropping them with the left mouse button. Wanda, however,seems to spout forth her words of wisdom on receipt of the button-down event. Suggest fixing so that dialog only appears when you click, not when you try to drag.
Lowering severity, as this is not very important.
/me ponders adding a 'consistency' keyword...
I guess the 'hig' keyword would cover consistency, although there isn't actually a specific guideline I can think of that this one breaches :/
Calum: after some thoughts, I wonder if your idea is good. The applets you can move with the left mouse button have a handle to drag them. All other applets can't be moved with the left mouse button because they don't have a handle.
True, but I would consider it a bug that you can't drag some applets with the left button. IMHO the only applets that you shouldn't be able to drag with the left button are the ones where left-dragging performs some operation within the applet itself, which I think currently only applies to the workspace switcher. Otherwise applets are inconsistent with launchers, menus and drawers for no particular reason. However, that's slightly orthogonal to the original bug I reported here, which is that nothing should happen to Wanda on mouse-down, it should happen on mouse-up when the 'click' is complete.
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Created attachment 28361 [details] [review] This patch handles the situation in which nothing happens to wanda on mouse-down, but it happens on mouse-up when click is complete.
Can we have this revised?
Thanks for the patch. I committed another one in HEAD.