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one of the things I love about the mac ui
Authored by: krishna on Aug 07, '03 09:54:25PM

I tried using this hint with no success; I tried papillon-drag to drag files to an external drive, but kept screwing it up; it kept copying them over, or deselecting them, or whatever. Then, I tried dragging the files over normally; the little green plus showed up for copy; *then* I hit papillon and the plus disappeared. Release mouse button, voila!

This works (and probably has for years for you mac faithful) for the option key in finder menus too; pull down a menu, then tap option, and watch the menu items change. It seems right that you be able to hit the modifier key any time during an operation instead of only before, get visual feedback that it's being recognized, and be told immediately what you'd get with or without it.

Another gentle reminder for me how developers should be thinking about user interface, and how Apple gets so many things right in this regard.



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