276320 - right click menu is poor substitute for right click, drag, and drop menu

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Don Erway]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0 - version 1.0 (20041206)

Please make message selection and drag and drop operations work like windows
explorer.  Select some objects, right click, drag and drop on a folder, and you
get the "copy to or move to" menu.

MUCH faster than lame multi-level static right click menus, that are so
painfully slow, to drill down to find the destination, when it is sitting plain
before you, graphically!


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select some messages
2.right click, hold, drag to a destination folder and drop
3.

Actual Results:  
right click menu for destination folder is displayed, as if folder was right
clicked.

Expected Results:  
tiny copy/move menu pops up, and one click gets you done.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

There's no need for the copy-or-move menus (which is one of the worst GUI
abominations that MS made IMHO).

Just drag the message with the LEFT mouse nutton, and drop it in the correct
folder. This would move the message. Pressing a modifier key (it's option on my
Mac, I don't know on Windows) changes this to a copy. 

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #1)
> There's no need for the copy-or-move menus (which is one of the worst GUI
> abominations that MS made IMHO).
> 
> Just drag the message with the LEFT mouse nutton, and drop it in the correct
> folder. This would move the message. Pressing a modifier key (it's option on my
> Mac, I don't know on Windows) changes this to a copy. 

drag a message to move it
ctrl-drag to copy it

Comment 3

[Don Erway]

No offense, but if you want to attract PC users to this software, this should work.

Who wants to remember which is which, for click and drag vs ctrl-click and drag.

That is why god made multiple mouse buttons...

:)

I'm trying to change it to an enhancement rather than a bug.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Who wants to remember which is which, for click and drag vs ctrl-click and drag.

Hmmm ... have you tried it ? The icon changes into a '+' sign, to indicate that
it will copy. Default is move. That's exactly the same as used in the File
Explorer. See <http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/12/256472.aspx>

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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