On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 13:10 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > 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.
And just to finish the email that Evolution sent before I was ready: this has come up as an idea on GNOME mailing lists etc. a few times before, but it's never progressed beyond the 'that sounds cool' stage, for whatever reason. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list