Re: [Nautilus-list] Mac feature

[Benjamin Kahn <xkahn ximian com>]

I thought I'd write in and toot my own horn a little.  I've written
spring loaded menus which browse directories you choose.  I use it with
Nautilus to get the functionality of spring loaded folders.  You can try
it out at:

http://www.zoned.net:8000/~xkahn/file_menu_applet/

It works pretty well.  (A few people have sent me debs, but I haven't
linked to them on the web page yet...)

On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 14:48, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 10:53, Glenn Pierce wrote:
> > I thought I would look into adding the Mac like feature of having a
> > window open when the user drags an item over a folder. Allowing the
> > moving of items to sub folders without navigating to the destination
> > directory first.
> 
> This is called "spring-loaded folders." To clear up Glen Garry's
> misunderstanding, this is good because it would allow a user to move a
> file from the Desktop to, for example, ~/music/humor/foo/bar/ without
> having to open up the target directory first. You would simply drag to
> ~/, pause, causing ~ to open, then to ~/music and pause causing that to
> open, etc.
> 
> I had thought this was planned, but I havn't heard of anyone working on
> it. I, for one, would love to see Nautilus have this feature.
> 
> > What area's of the code should I concentrate on to implement this.
> > Does any one have a suggestion for the method I should use?
> 
> I don't know about coding it, though. Sory.
>  
> 
> --Ben
> 
> > Thanks for the help.
> > 
> > 
> > Glenn
> > 
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