https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154804
--- Comment #48 from Bernd Steinhauser <li...@bernd-steinhauser.de> --- (In reply to sbahling from comment #39) > Of course on a computer system there are other options than "moving" and we > should have ways to access those options via key modifiers or using > alternate mouse buttons. I don't think we can come up with defaults that > everyone is happy with. I just hope we can make the behavior configurable. Key modifiers and even alternate mouse buttons are for power users only. Except for a few really known ones (like CTRL+c and CTRL+v), you really can't expect an ordinary user to remember any shortcut. The typical user doesn't even know key combinations like Meta+e or Meta+l. Heck, I consider myself a well-knowing PC user and even I really don't see the point in the about million key combinations that KDE defines by default. Actually it's so many, that I really avoid them (to some degree), because chances are high you hit a wrong key and something awful happens. In my opinion (and this is only my personal opinion), about 80% of them should default to "None", but have a "suggested key combination" instead, a concept that doesn't exist currently (and also might not be wanted by others, don't know). Anyway … you really can't expect people to know that left mouse button will move and e.g. Ctrl+LMB will copy. RMB drag, as I described in the first post, maybe, but even that is a concept that most users wouldn't incorporate into their workflow. The current way is actually a pretty smart way to give a typical user a way to decide between copy and move without needing to remember key combinations. Hence it should be the default. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #41) > Someone submitted patches that implemented the requested change, but > ultimately abandoned them because we couldn't figure out a way to always > copy by default instead of moving when dragging across devices (for safety). But why change the behavior in that case? IMO it's an inconsistency that shouldn't exist. If I would still want it to move by default, I would also want it to do that when I move files from one filesystem to another. (I think it's filesystems that matter here, not devices.) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
