Drag and Drop: the reason I will never use KDE

See this thread. For some bizarre reason, KDE has always taken the stance that it is somehow to the benefit of the user to harass them with a popup menu each and every time they try to drag and drop a file and provide no way to change that behavior (short of creating your own fork of KDE). That is insane. The KDE fans that, as in the linked thread, defend the practice always struck me as classic Stockholm Syndrome sufferers (see especially the lame argument about Windows supposedly being "unpredictable"; it would take a skilled user, which Linux users are almost by definition, less than a week to get down pat what Windows is going to do when you drag and drop in each type of situation without paying much attention. An unskilled user might take a month. Big deal). As one of the sane commenters points out:

Here are the facts:

• Windows Explorer, Mac OS X Finder, Linux Gnome, Linux LXDE, Linux Fluxbox, and Haiku Tracker default to move when files are dragged and dropped. They do not ask for confirmation.


• Thunar defaults to copy.


• Dolphin asks the user.


• Users very frequently move files into folders.


• Users hardly ever copy files into folders.

There is only one sane option:

Set the default to move and do not ask the user for confirmation.

Fortunately, there is such a thing as GNOME.