Re: Trash applet and Trash icon: d'n'd

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno dom, 05-12-2004 alle 12:28 +0100, Vincent Untz ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 

> > Tuning
> >       * Are a trash icon on desktop AND a trash applet on panel useful?
> >       * Is a question alert like "Do you want to remove the trash   from
> >         desktop and add it to panel?" needed?
> 
> It makes sense. Or we could simply remove the trash from desktop.

Here is /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible GConf key

> > 
> > Questions
> >       * Is it a nautilus bug, a gnome-panel bug, or a gnome-
> >         applets/trashapplet bug?
> >       * Can we solve it simply, or we need a big rework of nautilus
> >         desktop management code?
> >       * Why can we add multiple trash applet to panels? Do we really
> >         need 3 trash applets on the same panel?
> 
> Well... Why can we add multiple menu bars? I agree that this is useless
> most of the time, but how can you easily limit the number of instances
> of an applet, usability-wise? If you remove the applet from the "Add to
> panel" dialog, then the content of this dialog changes depending on the
> applets already in use by the user. Not very intuitive...

Oh, no, sorry. I was thinking something like a "Really add another Trash
applet to panel?" warning dialog when you try to add a second applet. 

So maybe libpanel-applet needs some API to declare an applet as single
instance. 

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Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>