Re: spring loaded folders

[Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <rosselli ling unipi it>]

Alan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:28:55PM +0000, MArk Finlay wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > That one is relatively minor though, Spring loaded folders is a major
> > feature IMHO, and appart from anything we'd get slated as copying mac
> > and not inovating.
>
>
> So just because it isn't new it shouldn't be done?  I'm not sure I agree
> with that.  I agree that gnome/kde/windows shouldn't just blindly copy
> each others features and should try to make *better* (more innovative)
> features, but I don't think that good UI design/features should be
> ignored simply because they have been done before.  Apple does have some
> street cred with UI design (or so the voice in my head tell me), and
> although I've never personally used them, I've heard enough people
> preach about SLFs that I would love to have that functionality available
> in nautilus/etc.

I agree with that, not adopting a useful feature only because that would 
be "copying" is rather limiting (legal troubles aside).

> The other better question might be "what would be an easy and gnome-ish way 
> to allow someone to copy data from one folder to another without having to
> open two nautilus windows?"

Apart from using the tree view in the side bar? Two ideas:

1. split panes (as Julien hinted): when you've got to move/copy/compare 
lots of files between two-three directories they're quite handy, which 
is why I still use Gentoo besides Nautilus;

2. instead of SLF, pop up a tree view, so that the user can navigate the 
folder hyerarchy and drop the file/folder he is holding where he wants; 
you could have sub-folders on the right, and upper folders on the left 
of the selected folder.

Either method shouldn't be too resource intensive AFAICT.

Ciao

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