GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 601514
Cannot move items with drag'n'drop
Last modified: 2010-02-02 22:13:03 UTC
as reported on Ubuntu's Launchpad (Bug #116503 reported by Philip Paquette): Drag and dropping triggers a "copy" operation, therefore a + sign appears next to the cursor, but when pushing shift while dnd, the cursor loses the + sign, but the move operation is not implemented... Therefore, it's impossible to directly move an item out of it's current directory. Also, if I dnd an item inside of it's source folder, it's a MOVE (but the cursor still shows a + sign), but if it's outside of its source folder, than it's a COPY.... That's inconsistent behaviour. Together with https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551390, it makes using alacarte for managing more than 4-5 entries very frustrating.
I can confirm this on Alacarte 0.12.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Alpha 1. What makes this worse is that since the focus is changed to the destination folder, it is not obvious that a copy of the item remains in the source folder. I see no reason why drag and drop should default to a "copy" operation.
Created attachment 151315 [details] [review] move menu items on drag and drop instead of copying them
Created attachment 151318 [details] [review] move instead of copying, show move cursor instead of copy cursor This revised patch hides the plus sign from the mouse cursor when dragging items.
The correct link for Paquette's bug report is (it's not bugzilla.gnome.org's bug report 116503, but ubuntu's 116503): https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116503 You can also check: https://bugs.launchpad.net/alacarte/+bug/267635
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 603363 ***