Hi again all, I now understand a little better what these springloaded folders do, and I can agree that they seem cool. I also understand that many people still hope for and want them, however that was not necessarily what I need. I can make do with something much more simple, although it may not have the same coolness factor - I'm of a pretty practical mind, I like to get things done with a minimum of effort - also called laziness. ;-)
For me, it would be well enough with a context-like menu, showing a list of folder names, and which could be traversed hierachially if there are subfolders. Not as cool, but pretty effective. Of course, I wouldn't at all mind if it looked pretty too. :) Would something like that affect any patents? I was looking into how nautilus extensions myself to see if it could easily be implemented that way, but from what I could see in the docs I found it isn't possible to trap drags/hovers and not possible to for instance replace the context menu, only add to it. Is this correct? The minimial behaviour I would like is (something like) this: * Drag file(s) over a folder * Context menu pops up showing subfolders, if any * Holding the drag, this menu can be traversed and files can be dropped by releasing, as usual * Subfolders containing yet more subfolders have the little arrow marking as per usual and open on hover * Optionally, other files could also be shown in the menu, but at least for me that is not necessary. Also, as an added bonus, I could really use a behaviour such as this when hovering without dragging, instead of opening folders I'd instead get a menu to navigate to the folder I actually want to open, which is a bit further down. Also, remember that a lot of this has desktop first and foremost in mind, that's where I personally could use it the most, although I could see it useful almost anywhere where there's a few levels down to traverse... -- Stoffe On 1/2/06, Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, den 02.01.2006, 20:30 +0100 schrieb David Christian Berg: > > On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:07 -0800, Jason Day wrote: > > > Let me add one more thing. The patent describes a method where the > > > enclosures are "sprung open" temporarily and closed when the drag is > > > complete. If you apply this to the spatial mode, it could be very > > > questionable, especially if you close the intermediate windows, > > > afterward. I don't think that it should be any trouble at all in > > > browser mode, especially if you remain in the destination at the end > > > of the drag. > > > > This whole discussion come up every now and then. If I knew a first > > thing about coding, I'd already have implemented for myself and shared > > the code with friends. > > I'd also think that the apple patent does not apply to what we call > > spring open folders. > > "I'd also think" doesn't help here. Lawyers are very sophistic(ated) wrt > positive right. > > > It's a _very_ handy feature and Gnome would gain a lot, as I agree. We > > might want to be careful to place it outside of the US to start with and > > see, if there's any action taken by Apple. > > > > Hope this is the last time, this is being discussed and that finally we > > get the spring open folders :) > > You may want to refer to [1], it contains a proposed patch. We also had > a subsequent discussion on the mailing list [2]. > > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44001 > [2] > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-September/msg00003.html > > -- > Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBDuagCWfvsaU5lO4kRApplAJ44jWHZ+yAa9MYD5u3opSxd1KvDQgCgrMdE > NEIfAbcAOS0xs/bHkDoKvKg= > =ywtq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > nautilus-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list > > -- Kristoffer Lundén ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gamemaker.nu/ ☎ 0704 48 98 77
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