Bug 89053

Summary: Drag & Drop needs to be extensively covered
Product: HIG Reporter: Frans Englich <frans.englich>
Component: generalAssignee: Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: celeste, fabian, finex
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Frans Englich 2004-09-08 08:19:35 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

An extensive section which covers all developer questions on Drag&Drop must exist(duh).

This was recently brought to discussion on kde-core-devel, which probably is a worthy read:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=109446322814352&w=2

It has also been discussed on kde-usability, see the archives.

Relevant section in GNOME HIG:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/input.html#drag-drop
(from a quick glance it doesn't specify what to do when an action, such as copy, is not supported in a query drag)

Relevant section in Mac OSX HIG:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/
Comment 1 FiNeX 2008-02-04 14:16:05 UTC 
As the issue has been widely discussed on the ML 4 years ago, it seems that the idea to remove the popup after the drag action has been rejected. Is the idea still valid?