Skip to content
GitLab
Projects Groups Snippets
  • /
  • Help
    • Help
    • Support
    • Community forum
    • Submit feedback
    • Contribute to GitLab
  • Sign in / Register
  • gnome-shell gnome-shell
  • Project information
    • Project information
    • Activity
    • Labels
    • Members
  • Repository
    • Repository
    • Files
    • Commits
    • Branches
    • Tags
    • Contributors
    • Graph
    • Compare
  • Issues 2,043
    • Issues 2,043
    • List
    • Boards
    • Service Desk
    • Milestones
  • Merge requests 152
    • Merge requests 152
  • CI/CD
    • CI/CD
    • Pipelines
    • Jobs
    • Schedules
  • Deployments
    • Deployments
    • Environments
    • Releases
  • Packages and registries
    • Packages and registries
    • Container Registry
  • Monitor
    • Monitor
    • Incidents
  • Analytics
    • Analytics
    • Value stream
    • CI/CD
    • Repository
  • Wiki
    • Wiki
  • Snippets
    • Snippets
  • Activity
  • Graph
  • Create a new issue
  • Jobs
  • Commits
  • Issue Boards
Collapse sidebar
  • GNOMEGNOME
  • gnome-shellgnome-shell
  • Issues
  • #3092
Closed
Open
Issue created Aug 21, 2020 by Allan Day@adayDeveloper

Hard to drag an app out of a folder

Testing GNOME 3.37.90 with a Fedora 33 development snapshot (in a VM), I've had a variety of problems with app drag and drop and app folders. These issues combined to produce a state where I struggled to figure out how to successfully drag a launcher out of a folder (as in, it took me 8 or 9 attempts to do it successfully).

  • If you drag a launcher out of a folder and immediately release, the drag is aborted an the folder closes.
    • The main issue here is that the folder shouldn't close - if the user releases the app before the timeout has been reached, they are essentially aborting the operation, and should be returned to the original state (folder open).
    • The app launcher should ideally be shown to move back to its original position, rather than disappearing and reappearing. (Is this lack of animation is due to testing in a VM?)
  • Dragging the launcher out of the folder, there's a timeout before the folder hides and you can drop the app on the grid below. In my testing the timeout felt long, and I was tending to abandon the operation before it was reached. Ideas here:
    • Consider reducing the timeout.
    • Consider some subtle visual feedback when the app is being dragged outside the folder, to communicate that the user is on the right track. I know this isn't typical on mobile but on a desktop the expectations might be a bit different.
  • It's easy to accidentally trigger page turns inside the folder, which is distracting.

In general, it just seemed a bit buggy and inconsistent. In some cases the folder would immediately hide as soon as I initiated the drag. In others, dragging the app caused the grid below to rearrange, making me think that I could drop the app on the grid, when I couldn't. Unfortunately it's hard to reproduce these issues.

cc @feaneron , @bertob , @jimmac

Edited Aug 21, 2020 by Allan Day
Assignee
Assign to
Time tracking