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 <chris gnome-de org>
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