Re: multivew branch status & UI decisions

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 13:10 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 20:30 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone considered having the
> > tabs work like the breadcrumbs currently do in Browser mode, where they
> > can be dragged and dropped as files, or have files dropped into them, to
> > quickly manipulate files? It would be a nice boost to functionality, and
> > at least the dragging part should be relatively simple to implement.
> 
> To generalise that idea, what you're really talking about here is having
> some part of any window (e.g. the icon in its tab or titlebar) act as a
> proxy for the document(s) it contains.  Sun's OpenWindows desktop used
> to do this quite extensively[1]; MacOS X still does it today in a rather
> more half-hearted fashion.

And just to finish the email that Evolution sent before I was ready:
this has come up as an idea on GNOME mailing lists etc. a few times
before, but it's never progressed beyond the 'that sounds cool' stage,
for whatever reason.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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