Re: Desktop as Nautilus

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 15 Mar 2006, at 12:52, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> On Mar 15, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Calum Benson wrote:
> > On 15 Mar 2006, at 09:55, Mike Douglas wrote:
> > > The trash applet was a great step forward for usability
> >
> > I'd somewhat dispute that, personally... no matter where on my  
> > panels I put the darn thing, nine times out of ten, it couldn't be  
> > further away from the thing I'm trying to delete if it tried, and  
> > dragging things that far is a royal pain.  (That doesn't make it  
> > any worse than the desktop trashcan, certainly... just not notably  
> > better IMHO.)
> > ...
>
> If it's in the bottom right corner of the screen (as it is in  
> Ubuntu's default setup, for example), it's several thousand pixels  
> wide and several thousand pixels high, making it the easiest thing  
> to drag to in the whole of Gnome.

Except when, like me, you want panel hide arrows turned on :)

> If you can't easily drag from one side of the screen to the other,  
> there's something wrong with your mouse acceleration settings.

Not "wrong", I just haven't found any settings to my taste that allow  
me to do it.  I've always hated anything that significantly speeds up  
my pointer the further I move it, so I prefer to stick with as near a  
linear correlation as I can get away with... which, with a big  
monitor and not much desk space, usually means a couple of movements  
to traverse the desktop.

(I just press Ctrl+T or Delete to trash files anyway, so I should add  
that it's not a big deal whether any sort of Trash icon or applet  
works well for me... except that if it doesn't, it probably doesn't  
work well for some other percentage of our users either, who may or  
may not want to use it any more than I do.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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