Public bug reported:
This is a usability bug of minor importance.
Selecting (via a marquee or Ctrl/Shift-Click) multiple icons on the
desktop (or a Nautilus window in Icon mode) and dragging them should
create a 'ghost' semitransparent copy of the icons, as originally
arranged before the dragging action commenced that serve to indicate the
position of the icons on the desktop (or Nautilus window) while the
mouse moves and before the drag action is completed.
Current situation:
Nautilus currently only provides this 'ghost' icon for the object
exactly beneath the pointer. This 'ghost' icon is not semitranslucent,
but opaque. For the remaining selected icons being dragged Nautilus
merely provides a dotted outline. This is poor from a usability point of
view for the following reasons:
1. The dotted outline is not visible over a range of backgrounds.
2. The single 'icon' that appears while dragging can be misleading to new users
who might think that they're only acting upon a single object.
3. The opaqueness of the icon representing object being dragged makes it
difficult to differentiate it between the other objects on the Desktop
(Nautilus window).
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Only one 'ghost' icon follows pointer while dragging multiple icons on the
desktop
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210811
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