Re: Temporarily open folders on drag-and-drop

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On 4 Jan, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Elia Cogodi wrote:
> ...
> What about this alternate behaviour: parent windows save the first are 
> closed as soon as a new one is open while the drag continues 
> (basically the drag-over open would correspond to a left-doubleclick 
> for the first drilldown, and to a middle-doubleclick for the others). 
> Thus you'd end up with two windows again: the one you started the 
> drilldown from and the final target. All intermediate windows are 
> closed along the way,

Please, no. :-) The biggest annoyance about spring-loaded folders as 
they are implemented in Mac OS, is that if you accidentally drag to a 
point outside the areas covered by the windows of successive subfolders 
{X1, X2, ..., Xn}, all those windows close themselves and you have to 
start again from X0. Your alternate behavior would mean having to start 
again from X0 if you made *any mistake at all* -- accidentally dragging 
outside any window, or accidentally hovering for too long over any 
folder. That would be very frustrating.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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