Re: [Usability] Interacting with open folders

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to supply a button, in the window, to select the 
> open folder? So you would select the folder the same way you select its 
> files. And you can keep using the existing menu (and the right-mouse 
> menu if you like), with no clutter I can see.
>
> The question remains how to extend this to drag the open folder to some 
> other place.

Yeah, not being able to drag an open window into the trash is a strange 
hole. That said, the behaviour of dragging windows and dragging nautilus 
file/folder objects is clearly different.

Maybe this is a case for the fancy new animation capabilities coming 
with xorg improvements.

Steven Garrity