Posts Tagged Drag
GTK: Usability failure
Posted by Ken in Programming on April 5, 2008
So as I’ve been developing my GPytage project I have had the task of adding support for multiple item drag and drop. I searched high and low to find an answer how or if gtk even supported it. So I take look at gnome’s bugzilla to see if I could find any thing about the subject, and I did: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114457 Multi selection drag and drop apparently does exist, it’s just incredibly stupid. I would have never even thought of trying a drag operation in that manner. I also don’t particularly like the developers response either. I guess gnome takes pride in having the most broken user usability feature ever for drag and drop. Why go against every other UI out there? Why ruin a good thing? I am not sure how this will impact development of GPytage, but I am particularly annoyed at gtk for the moment.
