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Subject:    Re: Drag and Drop Up-One-Level
From:       Phiilipp Weissenbacher <aon.912340043 () aon ! at>
Date:       2004-05-04 18:10:46
Message-ID: 4097DCA6.6050604 () aon ! at
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>>Yeah this pathfinder thng is quite a good idea, but is currently a bit
>>ornate (I this is the right word for this).
>>
>>The panels are a good idea, but they make the window quite fat and big.
>>Some of it's features are very nice (the folder thing on the left for
>>example), but I think this navigation bar is not our solution, because
>>it takes the advantages of the tabbed-broesing/file managament, wich is
>>very important to me.
>>
>>How about this idea: The toolbar with the path is usually always
>>visible, so why not use this?
>>We want the file 'Deployment.sxw' to be in ~/Documents/Work/ and we're
>>currently in /~/Documents/Work/Java stuff//.
>>In the path bar we see /file:///home/foouser//Documents/Work/School/6b/
>>So we just take the drag the file onto //Documents/.
>>The [] marks the area wich's background is highlighted if we're in the
>>toolbar: /file:///home/foouser//[Documents/]Work/School/6b/
>>
>>I'll make a screenshot (animated Gif) soon to make this better
>>understandable.
>>
>>I hope you understand me. Any comments on this?
>>    
>>
>Yeah, I think I've understood
>Well I don't agree completely on your solution, the address bar is supposed to 
>be used to type an address, also keep in mind that not all people use it for 
>file management (for example I don't use it) and idea could be to substitute 
>the address bar with the path navigation bar, maybe adding a type address 
>button if you want to type an address that opens a dialog like the one you  
>now get by pressing ctrl+o in a konqueror window, but with the actual path 
>already typed (maybe you want to access a hidden subdir of the current 
>folder) obviously this applies only to file management, web browsing need the 
>old profile with only the location bar.
>Don't you think this could be better?
>Luca
>
So you want another dialog for only putting a file one dir up? I think 
that's to much for just a simple thing (simple in the users point of view).
Of course we could do it with a dialog (think of the features we could 
put in there!), but I think we should think out a better solution. I 
think a drag'n'drop solution would be the most intutitional and should 
be the basic idea.

So here are some of my approaches:
* How about a zone on the bottom of the navigation-area nearest toolbar?
So if you start dragging something a colored line appears at the 
aforementioned are. If you drag the file onto this line a rectangle 
scrolls down and you have the decision between dragging the file up one, 
two or how much levels you want

* Another would be, yes, the up one level-button, but it would open the 
history if you drag it for more than a moment

I'm going to think a bit more about this "problem", although I don't 
have much time.

Cheers,
Philipp
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