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Originally Posted by Daddy Warpig
In iOS 4, you can organize apps into folders. ComicZeal is doing much same thing: organizing comics into series. Let's directly compare the two.
Folders on iOS 4:
Step 1: tap the app icon.
Step 2: drag onto another app icon.
Step 3: There is no Step 3.
Direct manipulation: tap with finger, move with finger.
ComicZeal:
Step 1: tap on the comic menu.
Step 2: tap edit.
Step 3: tap comic.
Step 4: tap move.
Step 5: choose destination from another popup.
Step 6: tap save.
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The requirements that Comic Zeal is trying to meet are very different to that of the folders in iOS4. In the case of folders there are only a few items per page and there is no need to scroll the page.
A better comparison would be iBooks, where re-arranging CAN be done by dragging but it doesn't have sub-folders and doesn't handle having hundreds of books very well.
Please consider the case where you have six screen-fulls of comics arranged alphabetically. You want to move your ten issues of 'Zebra tales' into a folder named 'Africa'.
Using drag and drop you would need to drag each comic up from the bottom of the list to drop it into the folder at the top of the list. It's just too slow, you'd give up after the third one.
The way Comic Zeal does it is the fastest way when supporting comic-oriented use cases. You select all the comics you want to move first, and then choose where they're going to.
The way you propose, that of mimicking the folders in iOS4, would make it very difficult to organise comics.