sofar wrote: > IANAL !!! > > Apple (and any major corporation in the industry) will most likely > try to file all their patents in both US, important Asian and > european markets. If you have any doubts, contact a legal > representator or parties like the EFF/EDRI on the issue, most of them > can help you with factual information. Even though patents might not > prove valid in certain areas, it could seriously impact the way Xfce > can be distributed - even though it's almost completely based in > Europe. Sad but true. > > Can someone explain to me which "method" we're actually talking > about? that is somewhat unclear to me.
Finder contains a feature, known as "spring-loaded folders", which allows you to open a new window with the folder while dragging over a folder. ROX has copied that behaviour nearly 1:1. A description of the feature in Finder is available at http://www.macoptions.com/tips/os/sprgfolder.html including a short video. Would be nice, tho, if somebody could do some research on this. It seems like there's a similar feature request for Nautilus and the GNOME guys already discussed this Apple patent thingy a bit. I'm not sure if Apples patent applies to the way I'm implementing this in Thunar right now. Thunar won't open new windows as does Finder (and as was/is planned for Nautilus), it simply loads the folder you are hovering in the current window. > Auke Benedikt _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
