360695 - Dragging to a tab should switch tabs after brief delay (spring-loaded tabs)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: Drag & Drop, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060911 Camino/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060911 Camino/1.0.3

Dragging a link to a tab and hovering should switch tabs so that the link may be dropped into a field on the page loaded into that tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag a link (especially an email link) to a tab and hover.

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Select the tab and display its contents so the link can be dropped into a field on that page. That will be a huge boon to us that use gmail..we can drop the email link into the search box, hit return, and gmail will open a compose mail window!

Comment 1

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

If this is technically possible, I think it'd be a great addition - like Finder's spring-loaded folders.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

There's gotta be some way to do this.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Mass un-setting milestone per 1.6 roadmap.

Filter on RemoveRedonkulousBuglist to remove bugspam.

Developers: if you have a patch in hand for one of these bugs, you may pull the bug back to 1.6 *at that point*.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Attachment: WIP patch

Here's a proof-of-concept patch that wires up the drag detection and timer (synched to the spring-loaded folder delay set in the Finder prefs).

To-do:

1) Switch tabs on the fly
2) Switch tabs *back* when dragging exits or is cancelled
3) (maybe) Hook up spring-loaded folder on/off pref to toggle the behaviour
4) Let space bar trigger instant-open, ignoring timer (like Finder does).

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Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Oh, and this should work for all drags, not just URLs. Tweaking summary.

Comment 7

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

(In reply to Chris Lawson from comment #5)

> Oh, and this should work for all drags, not just URLs. Tweaking summary.

For sure.

(In reply to Chris Lawson from comment #4)

> timer
> (synched to the spring-loaded folder delay set in the Finder prefs)

> Let space bar trigger instant-open, ignoring timer (like Finder does)

*That* is (awe)some OS integration ! :-)

Comment 8

[Stuart Morgan]

Please don't spam bugs just to agree with them. Use the vote feature instead; that's what it's for.