Re: [Usability] Fold'n'drop

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 20 Jul 2005, at 07:50, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:

> http://liihs.irit.fr/dragice/foldndrop/
>
> What do you think of this? I find it quite intuitive and effective
> (watch the video!).

It's certainly a cute effect, although it doesn't really seem to  
offer many advantages over (say) Apple's spring loaded folders.  Like  
those, it relies on being able to see at least part of the windows  
you want to manipulate or drop into, which has always seemed to me  
like the main failing of drag and drop in file managers.  More often  
than not, *I* want to drag things into windows, or even folders, that  
I haven't opened/created yet :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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