GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 440937
dnd target covered by the object
Last modified: 2018-02-10 03:27:59 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116501 "Binary package hint: alacarte When moving items by drag and dropping, the position of the moved item (i.e. the dark line) appears right in the middle of the item being moved, rather than on top, so I'm sure that more than 50% of people moving items never actually saw it... http://librarian.launchpad.net/7770016/Screenshot-Main%20Menu.png Screenshot ... This is the way GtkTreeView works."
To repeat, "this is the way GtkTreeView works" To a certain extent the problem is inherent in the concept of DND. Is there any concrete proposal for improving this ?
The issue is that the cursor is in the middle of the object, if you dnd some selected text it's located to the top-left corner. Another way would be to use composite
The cursor is wherever you clicked to start the drag. Anything else would lead to a jump when the drag is started.
when selecting some text and doing a dnd the rectangle is moved next to the cursor, do you think doing the same would look weird?
(In reply to comment #3) > The cursor is wherever you clicked to start the drag. Anything else would lead > to a jump when the drag is started. With jump do you mean the tree view row which is being dragged "jumping" to the top-left corner of the drag cursor? Right now the copy of the row to be dragged will be positioned under the drag cursor in such a way that the drag cursor points to the same location in the row as where the drag was initiated.
I have a brilliant idea. Perhaps they should behave sort of like tiles that dynamically rearrange themselves as you move one through them, like the tabs in epiphany.
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