While experimenting a little bit with DO9, I put the history in my left-side vertical toolbar - that is my past folders are displayed dynamically in the toolbar. I was somewhat surprised that it worked much better than the typical History button I have used before - the access is much faster, you can drag and drop easily, etc.
The only gripe I have is that with folders that have long names, the toolbar becomes somewhat unwieldy. Not to say that having it change its width every time the history changes is not nice-looking...
Also, more general question: I wonder how feasible it would be to add an option to "breadcrumb" some dynamically displayed folders? That is, the folders in the History would have little arrows beside them to go up and down... so that you can drag some files to the directory two levels up from the directory you were at four directories ago (to give you a convoluted example ). By the way, I was somewhat surprised that the breadcrumb bar itself is not recursive...
Maybe the list-generating modes of the Go command could be given "minwidth" and "maxwidth" arguments or something? You could drop GPSoft a feature request if that seems like it would do the trick. My assumption is that it would be easier to implement with the current system than actual fixed size toolbars (yet still give you what you want), but I might be wrong.
I guess anything is possible but that sounds quite complicated and my guess is that most of the time people will want to copy items into folders below a certain point (or points), which is already handled quite well by the new Go FOLDERCONTENT stuff.
Makes it the same as Explorer in Vista, I guess. I expected it to be recursive as well but that's how it is in both Opus and Explorer, FWIW.