On 7/20/05, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
