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On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:23:18PM -0500, Dave Vandervies wrote: > Somebody claiming to be Earle Martin wrote: > > > > Good God but this is stupid: > > http://downlode.org/Pictures/Stupid_Software/Windows_XP_Drag_to_Taskbar.png > > > > How did this even make it to release? Didn't the fact that this > > situation evidently occurred often enough in testing that someone had > > to implement this incredibly verbose and annoying message suggest that > > maybe they should ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT THIS BEHAVIOR? > > Most windows I've dealt with behave differently on drag-and-drop > depending on what part of the window you drop in. Yes, of course, the interface would not be completely "for free", but it would be damn cheap, and people have been trying to do this since Windows 95 gave them a taskbar. Consider that pretty much every application handles a drop of a document onto its icon in a manner that would be pretty much identical to a drop onto its button. How the program receives the document is indeed different, but the overhead of implementing the call path... A single function call most likely. Hell, you could even kludge it for the 95% case by launching a new app with the document as an argument. That would be hateful too, but it would mostly work. -joshThere's stuff above here
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