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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: Opinions Please -- WPS "feature"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.011516.13108@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Organization: Columbia University, New York
- References: <81678@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:15:16 GMT
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- 100% correct!!!!
- This has been bothering me almost every time I want to drag something :-)
- No, seriously, this is an illogical UI.
- PSE FIX IT...Thanks.
-
- In article <81678@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Kenneth McGaugh) writes:
- >Hey all.
- >
- >There is one aspect of the WPS that I really feel is
- >counter productive. I would like to hear some opinions
- >from others in the net about this idea.
- >
- >I feel that when an icon is selected with mouse button 2
- >with the intent of dragging it (moving, copying, shadowing,
- >or drag-n-dropping), the folder which contains that object
- >should NOT become the foreground window. I has become very
- >frustrating to find the object you are looking for, and when
- >you go to drag it to another folder, its folder comes to the
- >foreground and covers up the intended destination for your
- >object.
- >
- >If I remember correctly, the 6.304 beta of OS/2 2.0 last
- >spring had this exact feature in it. I do not know how much
- >code would have to be rewritten to change this, but I would
- >like to pursue this matter with IBM. Does anyone know who or
- >where to contact about such a feature change? I doubt they
- >will take it as a bug report.
- >
- >Ken.
- >--
- >M. Ken McGaugh
- >Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
- >uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt1610c
- >Internet: gt1610c@prism.gatech.edu
-
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