[cap-talk] Drag & "Attenuated" Drop?

[Rob Meijer]

On Tue, December 9, 2008 18:41, Mark Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Rob Meijer <capibara at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> There seem to be 3 alternatives possible, all seem sub optimal:
>>
>> 1) Show an attenuation dialog box on each drop.
>> 2) By default let drag+drop be a deep read only attenuation, use
>> something
>>   like CTRL drag-drop to show an attenuation dialog box on drop.
>> 3) By default let drag and drop be unatenuated, use something like CTRL
>>   drag+drop to show an attenuation dialog box.
>>
>> Am I missing a better alternative, and if not, what of these 3 would be
>> the preferable one.
>
> I favor #1, but with a simple drop-time pop-up menu rather than a
> dialog box. The reason is that on current systems I find myself doing
> a right-button drap-n-drop in order to get a drop-time menu anyway;
> since I have learned to be skeptical that the system-chosen defaults
> are what I want.
>

I'm not sure what the difference is between a drop-time 'pop-up menu' and
a drop-time dialog box. The thing I had in mind would look something like
http://polacanthus.net/DragNDrop.jpg at drop time.

Rob