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jslaughter
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 12:59 pm    Post subject: KDE (Kmail): Annoying contextual menu on drag and drop Reply with quote

I'm using Kmail and having a really annoying problem. Whenever I try to drag a message to a newfolder I get a contextual menu that pops up with "Copy," "Move," and "Cancel." How do I get rid of this menu? I'd like it to just move every time. I assume this isn't just a Kmail option, as Konqueror does it when I drag and drop files (it pops up a "Copy Here," "Move Here," "Link," and "Cancel" menu). These menus are very irritating and slow me down when I'm moving lots of messages or files. How do I disable them all together!?

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Unfortunately it looks like this is a perminant feature. From the KDE User Interface Guidelines:
" A drop causes a popup menu to appear that offers possible actions. Typical actions are: Move, Copy and Link. [...] There should also be a popup menu if there is only one action (other than Cancel) possible. Actions that aren't possible should not appear in the menu. "

*sigh*. Can this be disabled in at least Konqueror & Kmail?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In Kmail:
Settings, Folders, Ask for action after dragging messages to another folder.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like that feature!

But then again, i'm the kind of guy who likes Klipper to pop up asking for actions when i copy anything to my clipboard ;)
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 10:33 pm    Post subject: Re: KDE (Kmail): Annoying contextual menu on drag and drop Reply with quote

jslaughter wrote:
Unfortunately it looks like this is a perminant feature. From the KDE User Interface Guidelines:
" A drop causes a popup menu to appear that offers possible actions. Typical actions are: Move, Copy and Link. [...] There should also be a popup menu if there is only one action (other than Cancel) possible. Actions that aren't possible should not appear in the menu. "


Yes, that's one of the most annoying "features" of KDE indeed. Instead of letting the user decide what to do (like in windows ctrl/shift-mouseclick, or maybe using the left mouse button to copy and the middle to move), the developers just slow down the user. :roll:


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