[ANNOUNCE] Spring loading folder behaviour (bad news inside)

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thu May 27 2004 22:48, Kévin 'ervin' Ottens wrote:
> First of all, I open several windows only if the user setup require one
> window by folder. On solution could be to always use the browser metaphor
> without considering this user setup. Doing everything in one window is not
> covered by their patent at all.

Indeed.

> Secondly, it is stated in this patent that "All of the temporary windows
> except the destination are closed [...]", but my code close all the
> temporary windows except the _source_ NOT the destination.

The claims section doesn't mention that, so I'm not sure if that  statement 
limits the scope of the patent from a legal point view.

> Moreover, their patent doesn't cover triggering the event using the
> keyboard. Only by "pauses, gestures, or rolls over a hot spot on top of an
> icon", so triggering the event using the space key is surely acceptable.

Claim 1 phrases it like "in response to a drag during a drag operation of the 
pointer over an identifier corresponding to the particular enclosure". 
Letting the operation happen in response to a keyboard event seems like it 
would indeed bring your invention outside the scope of this patent :-)

> To sum up we have in my opinion two solutions:
> 1) dump half of my code and only work with the browser metaphor (don't open
> multiple windows) ignoring the user settings
> 2) don't remove any piece of my code since it's already different but
> modify it to trigger the event not using a delay but using a space key
> press
>
> Personaly I'd vote for solution 2 which have the nice side effect to honor
> user settings...

Perhaps you could do 2 only in case the user settings dictate a new window?

Cheers,
Waldo
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