Am Dienstag, den 10.06.2008, 13:10 +0100 schrieb Calum Benson: > 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. > > > [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/>
I am a huge fan of DND concepts, and making icons represent documents is totally intuitive from a user perspective, and a major step forward. If this is adopted, it should be done across the entire desktop. I often wanted to to directly trash a downloaded PDF documents, or move it to a particular folder. Some random notes: * [If we re-use the Sun concept]: Where to place the icon / drag handle. The RHS of the toolbar, or an area overlapping both the menu bar and the toolbar seem to be a good choice - where we put a spinner for file and web browsers: [ file edit ... ] | ****** | T O O L | *icon* | B A R | ****** * What other drag handles can we come up with. For instance, window lists could also be used as a drag source. * What actions to offer. move/copy DND is fine, but for PDF documents we may also offer dedicated file operation shortcuts on right-clicking (Trash, Cut, Copy). It would be amazing if you do some UI studies how this could actually look, then we can discuss about getting this into GNOME. :) best regards, Christian Neumair -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list