Drag & Drop prompt for left-click button

[Guest]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way to get the same prompt for the left-click button
as for the right-click button when using drag & drop of files or folders in
Explorer? Obviously without swapping the two buttons... Need a cure for the
well-known accidental drag & drop & disappear.

Cheers,
Eystein

 

[lvee]

Are you asking is it's possible to switch the drag and drop feature from the
left mouse button to the right? OR are you wanting to have both left and
right drag and drop capability?
I don't know what the drag & drop & disappear is
If you just want to switch, you can do that in the Mouse properties in
control panel.
..

 

[Joe Wright]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way to get the same prompt for the left-click button
as for the right-click button when using drag & drop of files or folders in
Explorer? Obviously without swapping the two buttons... Need a cure for the
well-known accidental drag & drop & disappear.

Cheers,
Eystein

I don't know of a way, but pressing Ctrl/Z will undo such an error in
most places. It even works on the Desktop.

 

[P. Johnson]

Does anyone know of a way to get the same prompt for the left-click button
as for the right-click button when using drag & drop of files or folders
in Explorer?

Not possible in Windows, though what you're asking *is* the default behavior
for drag and drop in KDE on Linux (though that's what you get when the
programmers are also the users and vice versa: Features users actually
want actually get included).

Obviously without swapping the two buttons... Need a cure for
the well-known accidental drag & drop & disappear.

Hit Ctrl-Z to undo. This trick also works on MacOS (Apple-Z) or in KDE
(usually Ctrl-Z, sometimes Apple-Z or Meta-Z depending on keyboard layout
and settings).

 

[P. Johnson]

Please don't backwards quote.
http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting

Are you asking is it's possible to switch the drag and drop feature from
the left mouse button to the right? OR are you wanting to have both left
and right drag and drop capability?

Neither. It sounds like Eystein wants a little menu to pop up that
reads "Copy Here | Move Here | Cancel" like KDE does when you drag and drop
a file.

I don't know what the drag & drop & disappear is If you just want to
switch, you can do that in the Mouse properties in control panel.

Eystein specifically said "without swapping the two buttons."

 

[lvee]

Please don't backwards quote.
http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting


Neither. It sounds like Eystein wants a little menu to pop up that
reads "Copy Here | Move Here | Cancel" like KDE does when you drag and
drop
a file.


Eystein specifically said "without swapping the two buttons."

Gee, thanks for the advice.
Here's a piece for you..ditch the 'backwards quote' term...it really isn't
correct.
Another tip..quit telling people how they are posting wrong, or that they
should do a bit of research before asking questions, or that they are
posting in the wrong newsgroup, or assuming that people who post in an Xp
newsgroup have an effing clue as to what KDE is..( KDE..for those of you,
like me, that don't have an 'effing clue', KDE is a powerful graphical
desktop environment for Unix workstations)
Course without people like me, and them..you'd be staring at a blank screen.
..

 

[P. Johnson]

Here's a piece for you..ditch the 'backwards quote' term...it really
isn't correct.

Sure it is, people read and skim English in top down order in the flow of
the conversation, not in random order.

Course without people like me, and them..you'd be staring at a blank
screen. .

Or a more clueful user base like gmane.* (which I also read).

 

[Guest]

Not possible in Windows, though what you're asking *is* the default behavior
for drag and drop in KDE on Linux (though that's what you get when the
programmers are also the users and vice versa: Features users actually
want actually get included).

Thanks. Thought so.

Hit Ctrl-Z to undo. This trick also works on MacOS (Apple-Z) or in KDE
(usually Ctrl-Z, sometimes Apple-Z or Meta-Z depending on keyboard layout
and settings).

Unfortunately some users don't realise they've actually moved the folders...


Cheers,
Eystein

 

[P. Johnson]

Thanks. Thought so.

No problem, glad to help.

Unfortunately some users don't realise they've actually moved the
folders...

That's something that can only be fixed with end-user training,
unfortunately...