379260 - Usability problem in drag&drop of images to filemanager, the images obscures the drop target

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 376238

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Uno Engborg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a4) Gecko/20070427 GranParadiso/3.0a4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a4) Gecko/20070427 GranParadiso/3.0a4

If I want to copy an image from a webpage to a folder in my file manager (in my case Nautilus) the natural thing to do would be to just drag the image from the browser wintdow and drop it on the file manager folder where you want it.

Technically this works fine, but the usability sucks. The problem is that the dragged image is so big that it covers several folders in the file manager. This means it is hard to know where you are dropping it.

A soultion to this would be to display the name of the droptarget besides the drag cursor, or even better to make use of AIGLX if its availabe and make the dragged icon semitransparant, so that the user could see the folder open when over the drop target.

Another solution would be to make the dragged thumbnail smaller, so that it had about the same size as the icons on the desktop. 

Reproducible: Always




Tested with Nautilus from Gnome 2.16