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ShadowKatana · May 19, 2003, 06:14 AM

I was wondering whether there is a way of dragging a document onto a folder in the dock and navigate through the hierarchial menu to an application to load the specific document, or to copy it into a folder. I really miss this feature.

chris v · May 19, 2003, 06:28 AM

One can only hope that spring-loaded folders are added to the dock in 10.3. Lord knows enough people have requested it.

CV

ShadowKatana · May 19, 2003, 07:34 AM

Yeah ... and I would also love to see Labels put back in. Its handy, you know, especially when you want to classify those documents in a folder.

-Q- · May 19, 2003, 08:28 AM

I'm less concerned about labels (as there's a 3rd party app that brings those back) as having a navigable directory structure via the dock. That would make it very easy to get around my disk, I'd think...

Shaddim · May 19, 2003, 09:08 AM

Originally posted by -Q-:
I'm less concerned about labels (as there's a 3rd party app that brings those back) as having a navigable directory structure via the dock. That would make it very easy to get around my disk, I'd think...

Ummm... why not just drag your HD icon into the dock then simply ctrl-click or right-click (if you have a two button mouse) on it? I can get around pretty quickly like that.

moonmonkey · May 19, 2003, 10:33 AM

Originally posted by MacNStein:
Ummm... why not just drag your HD icon into the dock then simply ctrl-click or right-click (if you have a two button mouse) on it? I can get around pretty quickly like that.

He is talking about moving files using the dock, not locating directories.

KidRed · May 19, 2003, 10:34 AM

Originally posted by MacNStein:
Ummm... why not just drag your HD icon into the dock then simply ctrl-click or right-click (if you have a two button mouse) on it? I can get around pretty quickly like that.

Yea, but it needs to be a lot faster, it's painfully slow to get the first menu to pop up.

wil · May 19, 2003, 11:48 AM

Originally posted by KidRed:
Yea, but it needs to be a lot faster, it's painfully slow to get the first menu to pop up.

If you create a folder of aliases, then place that folder in the dock, the menu pops open much faster.

ShadowKatana · May 20, 2003, 03:58 PM

Thanks guys for the help. I was wondering whether there was some system pref or haxxie etc. to do what I said above.

clarkgoble · May 20, 2003, 04:37 PM

Originally posted by wil:
If you create a folder of aliases, then place that folder in the dock, the menu pops open much faster.

While it is faster, it is still annoyingly slow. This is one thing that the dock does very poorly.

Diggory Laycock · May 21, 2003, 05:33 AM

A work around that I use:

Drag to any directory or volume on the desktop.

then navigate through the toolbar (which does do spring-loaded d&d) - most of my important directories can be got to through there.

Geobunny · May 21, 2003, 01:57 PM

Originally posted by clarkgoble:
While it is faster, it is still annoyingly slow. This is one thing that the dock does very poorly.

I think the reason it's so slow is that it's building a cache of the icons in the menu. Subsequent accesses are faster (but not a lot!). There should at least be an option to turn icons off in Dock contextual menus.