On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 09:40, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote: > >There is a nice solution in MacOSX where a folder opens if you hover > >over it, however such a method may be patented. > > > > Is it may be patented or already patented?
Yup, in the US at least: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6061061.WKU.&OS=PN/6061061&RS=PN/6061061 (I think their server's still down from their advertised April 1-2 outage though.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
