#16541: File drop location is not accurate, not under the cursor
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Reporter: bitigchi | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/Tracker | Version: R1/beta2
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Platform: All
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I searched for a ticket, but couldn't find one, so, here we go.
Drag & drop from a folder to Desktop and vice versa does not land the file
under the mouse cursor, it always jumps positions. According to Skipp,
this is a known issue from BeOS times:
{{{
00:22 <@Skipp_OSX> If you run listattr for a file on the desktop, you'll
notice there are two
attributes, _trk/pinfo_le and _trk/xtpinfo_le the
former is for files in folders,
the latter is for files on the Desktop. When you copy a
file from the Desktop to
a folder, it looks in the _trk/xtpinfo_le attribute to
find the location and uses
that to set it. Since the Desktop folder is much bigger
than the folder you are
copying to generally, the position
00:22 <@Skipp_OSX> that is read is often much more down and to the right
than other files in that
folder.
00:23 <@Skipp_OSX> I don't know who to blame for this but probably some Be
employee, and the bug has
remained all these years from the BeOS tracker to
OpenTracker to now.
00:24 < bitigchi> why there are two separate attr
00:24 <@Skipp_OSX> I'm not sure why there is a different attribute for the
Desktop folder, I'm not
sure why it is reading the attribute when setting the
location in a regular
folder, I'm not sure what needs to be done to fix it,
but that at least gives you
an idea of where to look for the problem.
00:25 < bitigchi> just use the folder attr for desktop as well?
00:25 < bitigchi> eliminate the other one?
00:25 < bitigchi> of c it'd not be that easy i guess
00:25 <@Skipp_OSX> or just ignore the location on the Desktop when you
copy to a folder
00:26 <@Skipp_OSX> maybe it is better to have separate attributes so that
you can have separate
locations for a file on in a folder vs on the Desktop,
maybe that's the way it
was meant to work and somebody broke it somewhere along
the line.
}}}
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/16541>
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