Jerry Krinock wrote on Feb 27^th, 2011 at 8:18pm:


It was the expanding after I dropped the item that I was objecting to (to conserve screen real estate). I have to manually close the folder that just opened every time. I guess springing open during the drag would not be a problem for me, as long as it then closed. (In fact, they would have to spring open to expose nested folders).

If you suppress opening the folder after the drop, maybe there's a way to visually indicate where the item ended up, like making the destination folder name sparkle or change color for an instant, or something.

For your tooltip text, how about something like "Hold 'Shift' to keep folders closed after dropping"? Although for me, the default case would be to keep the folder closed, and the shifted case would be to keep it open.

I'd be interested what others think.

Rob Lewis wrote on Feb 27^th, 2011 at 7:58pm:
There is a tooltip (text in yellow box) which appears while you're dragging an item (it's too much, I know, but we couldn't think of a better way), it says To stop folders from springing open, hold down the 'shift' key.  Unfortunately, it appears to have been broken in a recent version, so I just discovered when I tested it.  Looks like the folder stays collapsed at first, but then expands to reveal the newly-dropped item.

We'll fix it for the next version.  Thank you, Rob.