Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus Smoke Test --- first draft, feedbackRequest.

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 9/6/00 3:40 AM, Calum Benson at calum benson sun com wrote:

> As an aside, the Amiga has another interesting concept here (which it
> doesn't quite carry through in practice, but that's beside the point)...
> you can drag an item onto the desktop, and it will be moved there so you
> can get at it quickly while you're working with it.  But once you're
> finished with it, you can "put it away" again by picking an item on its
> shortcut menu, and it quietly goes back to where it used to live in the
> file structure.  (Much like being able to take things back out of the
> Trash again on most desktops these days.)  It works quite nicely,
> really.

This concept was borrowed from the Macintosh Finder, which has had this
concept in the Finder since about 1985.

    -- Darin