Wishlist: emphasize drag'n'drop feature of tracks

[mixxxbot]

Reported by: ronso0
Date: 2017-09-13T10:52:37Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp1716895
Tags: usability

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Mixxx has a great feature which I discovered only by chance:
one can drag track properties like title, artist or cover art to other decks or to playlists and crates. This is great if respective track is currently not focused/visible in library table.

I don't know how this could be implemented, but IMO it would be a
huge help for new users if
a) mouse pointer changes when hovering drag'n'drop-able items
b) all areas where this item can be dropped on are highlighted
(i.e. by a border) if mouse is dragging such an item

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2017-11-05T10:53:47Z

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In some other soft they colorize the background color of the drop target, which is conveniently obvious.I´d prefer it over a tiny mouse pointer.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2018-01-31T13:10:02Z

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As a first step we could extend the tooltips of artist & title items like this. Currently they have the 'dropTracksHere' string attached, so something like the following would make sense:
"You can drag title/artist to other decks, samplers, as well as drop it into playlists and crates"