Re: RFC: Shelf for keyboard-accessible file operations

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn letterboxes org>]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 21:08 +0100, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> Dnia 17-12-2004, pią o godzinie 17:30 -0500, Dave Ahlswede napisał:
> > I've read in the past that the Nextstep file manager, instead of using
> > cut/copy/paste to manage files without dragging, had a sort of virtual
> > folder called the Shelf that would temporarily hold files. To me, this
> > seems more intuitive than the current system. 
> 
> Note that while this is very good idea with browser interface (NeXT used
> column mode which is now used by Finder too), this gives little to no
> gain for spatial case (instead of dragging to shelf and then to target,
> you can drag to target directly). It is nice idea however for browser.
> Plus, I think it was already discussed on usability list, together with
> generic "DnD cup-holder" thing that would simply accept any target and
> serve as place to hold them temporarily. Grep archives to see if I
> remembered that correctly :)

Well, I know mouse drag/drop works great between windows, but the idea
was to make something a little more intuitive for keyboard use.
(Currently, I don't think there's *any* way of knowing that files are in
the copy/paste buffer)