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No drag & drop, across the entire interface, huge usability ouch. Here's an example: I use Evolution as my email client. An important email comes in that I'd l
by virtualwhys 13y ago
No drag & drop, across the entire interface, huge usability ouch.
Here's an example: I use Evolution as my email client. An important email comes in that I'd like to store in a project folder. In Gnome 2 you just drag and drop directly to the target folder; in Gnome 3 you have to right-click; choose "Move To"; then browse to the target folder (that is right before your f-ing eyes), and hope that it works.
It's the same for every application. Open 2 Nautilus windows, try to shift-select a bunch of files and drag to the other window -- does.not.work
For me lack of drag and drop is the single biggest strike against Gnome 3.
I use a tiling WM (i3) with Fedora 18; when I switch to Fedora 19 it will very likely be a Gnome-less stack.
- tadfisher 13y agoSounds to me like your window manager doesn't support the necessary drag & drop hints [1]. Yes, X11 does not specify a D&D protocol. All three of those use cases work fine for me, using the Gnome Shell itself. [1] http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/ http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/