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On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 08:47, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/20/2011 10:57 PM, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> I'd love to see a special pie menu unfold, when a mouse drag is held
>> above a launcher button, dwelling.
>>
>
> How would that coexist with the ability to reorder Launcher items via
> drag-and-drop?


When i drag something from Nautilus and hold the drag over a Launcher item
such a menu should appear.
When i drag and hold a Launcher item, it should not appear. OTOH, i'd very
much love to have desktop halves, i.e. left half and right half, like large
tiles, into which i can drag and drop an application. This way the
respective application would be expected to open in a
tiled-to-right-half-of-screen or tiled-to-left-half-of-screen fashion.

When talking about gestures, there's a lot we can do better with drag and
drop, to make the UI feel more natural with pointing devices and
touchscreens.