Drag and Drop Nuances

[koolestani]

Dragging an item from name column should drop that item itself.
Dragging same item from path column should drop the folder containing that item.

I observed that sometimes I have to open the item itself in an app, that's no problem, I simply drag and drop the item into the app and done.
But other times it's the folder containing the item that can be opened by the app, in that case I have to either Ctrl+Enter to open the containing folder, go one directory level up and then drag the folder into the app. Or perform the exact same search but with child: as the prefix.

[void]

I'll add an option to do this and trial it in the next alpha update.

I'll leave it off by default.
I wonder if it will cause too many unintentional parent folder drops?
The folder drag icon should help identify whats being dragged..

Thank you for the suggestion.

[koolestani]

No worries!
Yeah it's probably safer to have it off by default. Can't wait!

[void]

Everything 1.5.0.1359a adds an experimental drag_path advanced setting.

To drag a folder from the path column:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  drag
• Select drag_path.
• Set the value to: true
• Click OK.

I did experiment with being able to drag from the right click context menu. (right click in the path column, then drag the folder from there)
It worked rather well except when there was a recursive popup menu.
I will keep toying with this feature of dragging from the context menu.