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Impossible to drag an item in to a folder that's populated by enough items to fill the view (column view)

Open hanaral opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

What Happened

It is literally impossible to drag and drop an item in to a folder that has a scrollable amount of folders in it. The only way is to go back to the preceeding directory and drop it there

but since Files does not open directories and their parents as well like Finder in many cases I have to:

  • Cancel the DnD
  • Click on the folder before in the pathbar
  • Click on the directory again
  • Move the view to where I can see the previous directory again because of #1608

Expected Behavior

When dragging an item over a folder column, there is whitespace at the bottom of that column that reveals the text 'Drop here to move to this folder'

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open a folder fully so that it is the starting column
  2. Make sure it is fully populated by folders
  3. Dry dropping it in that folder

Platform Information

elementary OS 6 Daily

hanaral avatar Mar 08 '21 13:03 hanaral

Looks like we need to add some extra whitespace at the bottom somehow.

jeremypw avatar Mar 08 '21 15:03 jeremypw

Another solution would be to implement dropping onto the tab as a proxy for the folder.

jeremypw avatar Jun 09 '25 16:06 jeremypw