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I am finding that more than a few times I have accidentally moved entire folders of code accidentally into other folders in my projects. It is certainly made worse by the fact that I'm using a laptop with a touchpad and often the act of trying to "move" the cursor will lead to an accidental "selection" of a folder and drag it to where I'm trying to go. I'm not advocating removing drag-drop at the folder level, though personally I think a specific action of copy/paste would be safer. I doubt most programmers are re-organizing or moving entire folders of code on a daily basis. At the very least a simply confirmation prompt (You are about to move Folder 'X', are you sure Y/N). would more than satisfy my issue. I think the most dangerous aspect of this feature is if you aren't paying careful attention you could easily miss that the folder was even moved (smaller folders could be moved in a second and the info box here and gone that quickly). This could lead to confusion or worse. Also, while I recognize and saw that in other bugzilla-eclipse issues, developers defended eclipse behavior based on the fact that windows worked the same way (and in this case windows unfortunately does also work this way) I don't think it's a defense in this case. It's flawed in windows as well. I've done this same thing in windows numerous times and it drives me nuts. IMHO, moving folders is too big an action to simply let it run without a simple confirmation that you indeed want to proceed. I can tell you with eclipse as well as windows, 95% of the time my answer to that would be no.
Don, which view are you using (Project Explorer, Package Explorer, other)? I need to know since the DnD handling isn't actually part of the Platform UI but is implemented by the view's 'owner'...
Sorry I didn't see your reply sooner. The view I'm referring to is the navigator view which is a 'general' view and thus I would assume a part of the core eclipse product. Thanks! Don
Don, we likely won't do it for the Navigator view since it's been publicly deprecated in favor of the Project Explorer... The two most common 'workspace browsing' views are current the JDT's Package Explorer and the Project Explorer. I could ask if they'd be interested in providing the functionality but no promises...;-).
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
