GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 695071
[drag n drop] show a tooltip next to the cursor, indicating action (copy/move/link)
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:15:51 UTC
During a drag n drop operation, nautilus shows a move/copy symbol next to the mouse cursor, indicating the action taken when the user releases the button. Useful as the drag n drop behavior varies depending on source and destination directories being or not being on the same partition. As explained in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320286#c9, the behavior makes sense and is error-prone. As suggested in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320286#c10 and following comments, the mere presence of the symbol is a bit subtle if you're not used to it. It would be great to have a tooltip in addition to the symbol, labeled "move $file to $destination" or "copy $file to $destination" or even "move N files to $destination". This kind of information is present on other operating systems/file managers.
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