102151 - more on visual feedback during outliner drag-n-drop

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Not interested in Mozilla any more]

Now that we have outliner column reordering there is still an awkward problem
remaining. When a column is dragged there is nothing visibly being dragged.
It used to be that you saw the title button being moved around. However,
all you see now is a mouse pointer moving arround and a small line appearing
at the position the column will be dropped. This is happening on Win32 and MacOS
in build 2001092804.

Comment 1

[David Hyatt]

--> hewitt

Comment 2

[Ari]

As of the 1/03/02 Mac OS X trunk build, the reporter's description of the
problem is incorrect. Something is visible when dragging outliner elements on
the mac. What is visible is a giant framed rectangle that is far larger than the
bounds of the element being dragged and takes up most of the screen. You can see
this when dragging elements in the 'Manage Bookmarks' window. An example of a
correctly sized framed drag rectangle is visible when dragging links on the
Personal Toolbar.

By contrast, dragging ouliner elements on Win32 gives visual feedback by
changing the mouse pointer according to the convention of that platform.

As a result, I think that this should be a bug, not an enhancement, on the mac.
But, I think that the current Win32 behavior is fine.

Comment 3

[Not interested in Mozilla any more]

It is, however, the case in MacOS 9.x using a late build 0.9.7 (2001122106).
Nothing is dragged, the mouse doesn't change shape. All you get is a line in the
outliner where the column will be droped.

Comment 4

[Not interested in Mozilla any more]

Amazingly this is still the case with Thunderbird on MacOS X.