Re: [Usability] new feature: dragging file folder folder opens it ?

[Jason Day <jason s day gmail com>]

Specifically here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-July/msg00297.html

Boiled down:
Response was pretty positive. There was also discussion of DnD to/from the path/sidebar and adding context menus to these. Also, the Apple patent (#6,307,545), entails a lot more than just "open a folder when you pause over it" and many didn't belive that this would violate it, at all. Or, as Calum Benson, from Sun said:
"Also bear in mind that working on any feature with knowldege of patents in the same field usually puts you in a worse legal position than if you didn't know about the patent in the first place... when it comes tosoftware patents, ignorance is usually bliss :) (Provided you have lawyers who can worry about it for you, anyway...)"

Also, see this thread in the Ubuntu Linux forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=273348

On 8/5/05, Jason Day <jason s day gmail com> wrote:

I brought this up on the nautilus list recently, see here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/