POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Modern Linux desktops suck : Re: MS Windows Server Time
5 Sep 2024 11:26:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: MS Windows  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 18 Nov 2009 13:42:24
Message: <4b044010@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> I saw a demo of a drag-and-drop idea I've been lusting after ever since.
> 
> What I really miss in Windows which was the norm on the Acorn GUI was to
> be
> able to drag-n-drop to *save* a file from an application.  Quite often I
> find myself having the explorer window open of some folder deep on our
> network drive and I want to save my document in there.  On the Acorn you
> could just click save and drag the file icon to the explorer window, but
> on Windows you have to navigate in the save dialog to the folder,
> copy&paste the path name into the save box, or save to the desktop and
> then move it in explorer.

Mac supports that.

Applications that handle "documents" show a document icon in the titlebar. 
You can drag it to a Finder window.


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