Re: multivew branch status & UI decisions

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 20:30 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote:

> Has anyone considered having the
> tabs work like the breadcrumbs currently do in Browser mode, where they
> can be dragged and dropped as files, or have files dropped into them, to
> quickly manipulate files? It would be a nice boost to functionality, and
> at least the dragging part should be relatively simple to implement.

To generalise that idea, what you're really talking about here is having
some part of any window (e.g. the icon in its tab or titlebar) act as a
proxy for the document(s) it contains.  Sun's OpenWindows desktop used
to do this quite extensively[1]; MacOS X still does it today in a rather
more half-hearted fashion.


Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] <http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-2901/6jc3a4lqj?l=en&a=view>
[2]
<http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/20/quick-tip-window-title-bar-icon/>

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