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Bug 65421

Summary: [Undo] Undo of accidental file or folder movement
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Sam Hoover <samhoover>
Component: UIAssignee: Eric Moffatt <emoffatt>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
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Description Sam Hoover CLA 2004-06-02 14:59:17 EDT 
My peers and I have been using Eclipse for about five months. We are all using Eclipse on Apple 
PowerBooks for Java Web Application development, with an Oracle DB backend. We are very happy with 
Eclipse except for this one painful problem. 

When moving the mouse over the Navigator/CVS/Java Perspective window, sometimes a file or folder is 
inadvertently picked up and moved to another folder. This is a big problem for us, because we have a 
very large resource tree and there is no "Undo Move" feature for putting things back where they belong. 
We have to build the whole project, find out where it breaks, then move things back where they belong 
manually, or wipe out the project and download the entire thing again from CVS.

We would happily become Beta testers for this feature.
Comment 1 Andre Weinand CLA 2004-06-04 06:50:02 EDT 
Is your real problem that drag&drop is too sensitive
or are you just asking to support Undo for resource move operations.
Comment 2 Steve Northover CLA 2004-06-04 09:06:08 EDT 
Moving to UI for comment.  Seems I do this on Windows sometimes too.
Comment 3 Sam Hoover CLA 2004-06-04 10:43:11 EDT 
I don't think that we have our drag & drop set too sensitive. It happens to all five us, using different 
mice, trackball, and touchpad for mouse control. The touchpad is the worst, due to the nature of it's 
location, but it also happens to us using mice and trackballs.
Comment 4 Susan McCourt CLA 2005-09-09 15:20:37 EDT 
This is not really drag and drop related, but a request for better undo.
Marking this as a duplicate of bug #23172, which I am investigating for 3.2.

I will also be investigating (lower prio) undo for other mouse-related 
accidents that change navigation-style info, such as the selections, 
expand/collapse, visible items, etc.

See also bug #86753 for general discussion of what should be undoable.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23172 ***