Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
I apologize if this is one of those hot topics that have been discussed
several times... however: when you drag a file from nautilus inside an
open window, the action choosen e.g. copy, link etc. depends on "where"
the target directory is located. This makes observable the difference
between two directories in different hard-drive partitions, while it
should not be so. Moreover, I think I would have serious difficulties
teaching what is going on to my elder users. It seems to me that KDE's
idea of popping the context menu up by default is a saner choice.
I recall that an usability principle I learned from the gnome2 HIG or
whatever they were called, is that temporal evolutions in the way the
interface responds to an user should be clearly marked - e.g. you shoud
disable menus and not make them disappear. In the same fashion, having
data get either copied or moved depending on where the target is located
does seem to me a rather unobservable distinction. Could the popup menu
on drop be made the default, and maybe a gconf key added so that
aficionados can reset current behavior?
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Nautilus has poor usability w.r.t. the action choosen when dragging and dropping
https://launchpad.net/bugs/82196
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