File Browser UI: Allow dragging anywhere in a file preview tile to drag
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Authored by Julian Eisel (Severin) on Mar 2 2022, 7:30 PM.

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Pablo Vazquez (pablovazquez)

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rB6e487228a595: File Browser UI: Allow dragging anywhere in a file preview tile to drag

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Previously you'd have to drag the image itself, dragging outside of the image but within the preview tile (e.g. the name) would not start dragging the file, but trigger border select. This often conflicts with user expectations, especially when doing things fast. In fact I've seen many people get annoyed by this, or people have complained about it.

Or explained visually:

Old	New

This specific patch sets the "drag hit-box" as indicated here:

That is opposed to using the full tile size:

Reason being that the latter leaves quite little space in-between tiles to start dragging a boundbox from.

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Repository: rB Blender

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Julian Eisel (Severin) requested review of this revision.Mar 2 2022, 7:30 PM

Julian Eisel (Severin) created this revision.

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B20806: Diff 48857.Mar 2 2022, 7:30 PM

Julian Eisel (Severin) retitled this revision from File Browser UI: Allow dragging anywhere in a file tile to drag to File Browser UI: Allow dragging anywhere in a file preview tile to drag.Mar 2 2022, 7:40 PM

Julian Eisel (Severin) edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)

The idea seems relatively reasonable to me, and the code is understandable. Another argument for a more hierarchic representation of UI elements, I think.

source/blender/editors/interface/interface_handlers.c
2139–2140 ↗	(On Diff #48857)	It's not obvious how this change is related (I'm not familiar with this code). A comment on the choice of size might be helpful? Or it's just the general state of the code; there are no comments on `imb_scale` or `sx, sy`.

Julian Eisel (Severin) edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Mar 2 2022, 7:46 PM

Julian Eisel (Severin) added inline comments.Mar 2 2022, 7:55 PM

source/blender/editors/interface/interface_handlers.c
2139–2140 ↗	(On Diff #48857)	Without this change you get these offsets of the drag image when dragging, because the button has a different size than the preview: (The cursor is in the middle between the image and the text.) Indeed the code for this is confusing. `sx`/`sy` are the width/height of the box to draw the preview within, on top of which the tooltip will be displayed. Not sure if it makes sense keeping to keep these parameters, now we just always set them based on the image size. Maybe for other cases it's nice to have more control.

Francesco Siddi (fsiddi) awarded a token.Mar 2 2022, 8:21 PM

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Logan (CarbonSmasher) awarded a token.Mar 3 2022, 2:20 PM

This is great! Having that gap is a good idea to keep balance.

In most cases the user clicks in-between the thumbnail and text anyway. +1 !

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 3 2022, 2:56 PM

Applied {544bd0c353cf}
Remove now unnecessary header

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B20826: Diff 48895.Mar 3 2022, 3:16 PM

Closed by commit rB6e487228a595: File Browser UI: Allow dragging anywhere in a file preview tile to drag (authored by Julian Eisel (Severin)). · Explain WhyMar 3 2022, 3:18 PM

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Julian Eisel (Severin) added inline comments.Mar 3 2022, 3:25 PM

source/blender/editors/interface/interface_handlers.c
2139–2140 ↗	(On Diff #48857)	I entirely removed the redundant parameters now (544bd0c353cf), if there ever is an actual need for this (which I kind of doubt), we can bring it back in a better way.