Sometimes I have comparitively large images with corresponding large icons on my
desktop or in Nautilus folders that I want to drag and drop to other folders.
Nautilus's signal that a folder has been 'targetted' for a drop is highlighting
it. However, if you pick up a file by its icon (click on the icon itself to
drag, not the text below) and move it over a destination folder, the icon will
often completely obscure the target, leaving you unable to tell when the target
has been successfully selected. (I've managed to dump 50 files in the wrong
folder by doing this.) A 800x600 image is a good test for this, but almost
anything will work if you try and dump it in the tiny Trash applet.
Picking a file up by its text doesn't have this problem because you can see when
the target folder is highlighted through the text when you place the mouse
cursor over the target folder.
There's a number of ways I can see this working better: making the icon you are
dragging partially transparent so that you can see the target through it, making
it smaller so that you can see the target around it (potential usability issues
there too!), bringing the target to the front, somehow having the target and the
moving icon merge into a transitional icon when the target has been selected.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47897: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47897
Some bugs are open upstream about this. One example:
http://