GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 719631
When drag'n dropping a file onto the timeline, the big sized thumbnail bothers the user since it hides too much the track
Last modified: 2015-10-20 13:15:04 UTC
Hi, Here is the case. When files already sit on the timeline, you can easily move them and, for instance, try to place one against another to join them. But, when a file directly comes from the media library, its (big) thumbnail hides for the most part the track and then you can't easily directly work with it : it bothers the user trying to directly work with a file imported from the media library (for instance drag and drop a file from the media library and, in the same move, try to join it with a file that already sits on the timeline). Thanks (I have a NEC MultiSync EA192M 1280 x 1024 monitor http://www.nec-display-solutions.com/p/fr/fr/products/details/dp/Products/LCD/Current/LCD-EA192M/LCD-EA192M.xhtml)
Created attachment 263228 [details] Screenshot of the thumbnail a file while drag and dropping it from the media library onto the timeline
To be more precise : this is happening in media library Icons mode. In List mode, things are not that bad
Yep, annoys me too. This is probably because we don't set anything as the visual representation of the item being dragged for GTK, so GTK just takes the listview row or the iconview cell. Would be nice to take care of that as part of the responsive view, bug #708332
Actually, if you look at medialibrary.py in the _dndDragBeginCb callback, you'll see that we do: Gtk.drag_set_icon_pixbuf(context, row[COL_ICON_64], 0, 0) The problem is that GTK seems to completely ignore it, and I have no idea why.
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