Re: [Nautilus-list] Mac feature

[Mike Szczerban <mike aspect net>]

As I recall, a long time ago when the spring-loaded folders feature was 
discussed, some issues with the patents Apple had obtained were 
mentioned... are these issues still present?


-- mike szczerban

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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