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midwinter · Apr 1, 2004, 01:13 PM

Hi all.

I really miss popup folders. Seriously. I used to keep about 3-4 of them at the bottom of the screen and I miss the ability to just drop a file in there so quickly. Now that we're getting back some of the candy from the pre-X days (labels, etc), I'm wondering whether anyone is working on bringing back popup folders?

typoon · Apr 1, 2004, 01:29 PM

Originally posted by midwinter:
Hi all.

I really miss popup folders. Seriously. I used to keep about 3-4 of them at the bottom of the screen and I miss the ability to just drop a file in there so quickly. Now that we're getting back some of the candy from the pre-X days (labels, etc), I'm wondering whether anyone is working on bringing back popup folders?

Don't need popup folders when you have the Dock. This feature will probably not come back. You could put the folder you want in the dock then just drag the file onto that folder in the dock. It's similar.

midwinter · Apr 1, 2004, 01:32 PM

Originally posted by typoon:
Don't need popup folders when you have the Dock. This feature will probably not come back. You could put the folder you want in the dock then just drag the file onto that folder in the dock. It's similar.

It's not good enough if I want, very quickly, to see the contents of a series of folders. I know that the dock is the general counterargument against popups, but I think it's a feature that needs to come back.

cpac · Apr 1, 2004, 01:32 PM

similar yes, equivalent? no. What'd be really nice is if they finally implemented spring-loaded dock folders - something it seems has been talked about since before 10.1 came out....

Maybe Tiger?

typoon · Apr 1, 2004, 01:41 PM

Originally posted by midwinter:
It's not good enough if I want, very quickly, to see the contents of a series of folders. I know that the dock is the general counterargument against popups, but I think it's a feature that needs to come back.

I see your point but I haven't really found a need for them with the contextual popup in the dock. You can see files almost as quickly. Either way I doubt this feature will come back.

cpac · Apr 1, 2004, 01:49 PM

Originally posted by typoon:
I see your point but I haven't really found a need for them with the contextual popup in the dock. You can see files almost as quickly. Either way I doubt this feature will come back.

Yes you can see the files, but you can't put files into a subfolder of a folder in the dock (And it can be a pain to--for example--have to have your music, movie, picture, and documents folders all in the dock, rather than just having your Home folder). With pop ups you could drag a file to the tab, it would pop open, and then you could continue doing the spring-loaded thing until you found where you wanted to place your file.

And why not implement it? Or have somebody else work on a haxie to implement it? (which, it seems, is what the original poster was asking)

typoon · Apr 1, 2004, 01:58 PM

Originally posted by cpac:
Yes you can see the files, but you can't put files into a subfolder of a folder in the dock (And it can be a pain to--for example--have to have your music, movie, picture, and documents folders all in the dock, rather than just having your Home folder). With pop ups you could drag a file to the tab, it would pop open, and then you could continue doing the spring-loaded thing until you found where you wanted to place your file.

And why not implement it? Or have somebody else work on a haxie to implement it? (which, it seems, is what the original poster was asking)

Doesn't Dragthing or dropdrawers or something offer something similar to this feature?

cpac · Apr 1, 2004, 02:03 PM

Originally posted by typoon:
Doesn't Dragthing or dropdrawers or something offer something similar to this feature?

I'm sure one of these various dock-replacement type things does offer that functionality.

But that begs the question whether anybody (including Apple) is working on making this work in the Dock.

typoon · Apr 1, 2004, 02:06 PM

Originally posted by cpac:
I'm sure one of these various dock-replacement type things does offer that functionality.

But that begs the question whether anybody (including Apple) is working on making this work in the Dock.

Who knows. Apple could be working on it for the next release of the OS, or the might not be working on it at all and consider this feature dead. The best thing is to send in a feature request for this and see what happens.

I don't know of anyone else working on this either.

midwinter · Apr 1, 2004, 02:10 PM

This just seems like the kind of thing unsanity would be working on.

CharlesS · Apr 1, 2004, 03:08 PM

^ It would make absolutely no sense to make yet another pop-up folder replacement. DragThing and Drop Drawers both have been out forever. DragThing 5.0.1 is an excellent app, and I highly recommend it. Works better than the old OS 8 pop-up folders IMHO, and doesn't patch existing apps like the Unsanity stuff does to make them crash and act strangely.

sushiism · Apr 1, 2004, 03:28 PM

would be nice to see it back, can be pretty handy

midwinter · Apr 1, 2004, 08:28 PM

Hrm. I tried dropdrawers, and while it's close, it's not the same thing. It just seems to make an alias, not move the actual file. This is the only thing I really, really miss from the OS 9 days...they were such an incredible aid to my workflow.

*grumble*

Macanoid · Apr 2, 2004, 01:50 AM

Check out 'Workstrip' from Softchaos. It's a Dock just like apple's dock but with pop-up folders!