Bug 166694 - Drag and drop from one places menu to another needs a smart context menu
Summary: Drag and drop from one places menu to another needs a smart context menu
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kfile
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdelibs bugs
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Reported: 2008-07-16 05:29 UTC by Nach
Modified: 2018-04-11 21:33 UTC (History)
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Description Nach 2008-07-16 05:29:19 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.83)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

When having two places menu open, and an entry is dragged from one to another, a copy is made in the places menu.

What really needs to happen is for a context menu to appear. In the case where the particular entry is specific to the places menu in a program, 4 possible options should appear:
1) Copy entry to other application's places, and make it specific
2) Make that entry non specific, so it's in all places menus.
3) Really just copy it, but as a global, so the originating menu will now in fact have it twice.
4) Cancel

In the case where it's not specific, only 2 are needed:
1) Really copy
2) Cancel

To be honest though, really copying it in the non specific case seems odd, and is most likely not what a user wants. Although I'm not sure why one would try to drag from one to another in this case. But the blind copy currently done seems certainly to me as not the right thing to do.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-04-11 20:08:22 UTC
This is no longer applicable since Places Panels are handled globally and their content is synced--except for app-specific entries. For those, the current behavior makes sense.
Comment 2 Nach 2018-04-11 21:28:26 UTC
I'm not entirely convinced some kind of context menu when dragging and dropping these isn't helpful, but I do agree that since the early KDE 4, things are much better now. The ability to edit an entry in the places menu allows you to get what you want, and dragging and dropping between applications and say Dolphin now has saner defaults.

At this point the feature isn't really as must-have as it was 10 years back when I made it.

Thanks for reviewing this.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-04-11 21:33:43 UTC
You're welcome, and sorry I have to close so many of your bugs! I'm trying to make the bugtracker useful again by only having open things that are still relevant and that we intend to fix or implement. Thanks for your understanding!