Power tools for copying and moving: useful stuff for your desktop

  • Authors:
  • Guillaume Faure;Olivier Chapuis;Nicolas Roussel

  • Affiliations:
  • LRI - Univ Paris Sud & CNRS/ INRIA, Orsay, France;LRI - Univ Paris Sud & CNRS/ INRIA, Orsay, France;LRI - Univ Paris Sud & CNRS/ INRIA, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Copy and move operations have long been supported by interactive desktops through various means. But the growing number of on-screen objects makes these means harder to use. In this note, we present new tools and techniques to enhance the existing ones: a selection, copy and drag history manager; two techniques to expose the user's desk and leaf through stacks of overlapping windows; and a technique that integrates the previous two with conventional drag-and-drop.