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Article #16134

Re: Opinions Please -- WPS "feature"

#16134
From: Meir I Green
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:15
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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
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>Internet: gt1610c@prism.gatech.edu


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