Re: Temporarily open folders on drag-and-drop



Am Montag, den 02.01.2006, 20:30 +0100 schrieb David Christian Berg:
> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:07 -0800, Jason Day wrote:
> > Let me add one more thing. The patent describes a method where the
> > enclosures are "sprung open" temporarily and closed when the drag is
> > complete. If you apply this to the spatial mode, it could be very
> > questionable, especially if you close the intermediate windows,
> > afterward. I don't think that it should be any trouble at all in
> > browser mode, especially if you remain in the destination at the end
> > of the drag. 
> 
> This whole discussion come up every now and then. If I knew a first
> thing about coding, I'd already have implemented for myself and shared
> the code with friends.
> I'd also think that the apple patent does not apply to what we call
> spring open folders.

"I'd also think" doesn't help here. Lawyers are very sophistic(ated) wrt
positive right.

> It's a _very_ handy feature and Gnome would gain a lot, as I agree. We
> might want to be careful to place it outside of the US to start with and
> see, if there's any action taken by Apple.
> 
> Hope this is the last time, this is being discussed and that finally we
> get the spring open folders :)

You may want to refer to [1], it contains a proposed patch. We also had
a subsequent discussion on the mailing list [2].

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44001
[2]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-September/msg00003.html

-- 
Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>

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