Re: [Usability] Fold'n'drop

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

One somewhat obvious problem with the "throw away" portion of the window
folding, is that with optical mice, you might move the mouse over some
small partical, and then the cursor gets thrown to the edge of the
screen, making the software think you were just slinging the window off
of the desktop.

The feature looks nice, and accompanied with hovering over folders to
navigate through them for drag and drop, would make a very powerful
interface for using the mouse to move files around.

-- dobey



On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:19 +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> On 7/20/05, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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 :)
> 
> Why does it depend on seeing a part of the window? The idea seems to
> be that you can move away every visible window, so you can easily
> access what's below it. I tried the Java demo and it works really
> well.
> I don't think windows should completely disappear though, because it
> seems non-obvious what to do if the user accidentally moved away the
> actual target (or source) window.
> 
> Daniel