OS X 10.5 Leopard

Multiple Finder window selects coming in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?: "Descriptions of several features and interfaces not present in shipping versions of Apple Computer'..."




Perhaps the most promising revelation to come from the filings is a Spotlight-supported Finder feature that would allow Mac OS X users to perform selections from multiple Finder windows simultaneously when organizing or relocating files.

In one example outlined in the filings, Apple engineers show a total of five Mac OS X files being selected simultaneously from three open Finder windows, in addition to a sixth file that resides on a Mac OS X desktop.

Multiple-Window Finder File Selects?

The filings also describe a new contextual menu feature that would coincide with the enhanced selection capabilities. After making a multi-window file selection, users would be able to trigger a new contextual menu that would present three functions that could be applied to the selected files in a single operation: "Move to Trash," "Create a New Folder and Move Items to New Folder," and "Create a New Folder and Copy Items to New Folder." The filing explains that the move and copy functions may prompt the user to name new folder being created or create a new folder with a default name such as "untitled folder."

Together with this patent a few months earlier: