Re: Nautilus desktop icons and metacity

["D. D. Brierton" <darren dzr-web com>]

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 11:17, Darryl Rees wrote:
> D. D. Brierton wrote:
> 
> >>If you want to have icons that are always visible, use the panel. That
> >>won't be covered.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >That won't work for icons for hot-pluggable devices that appear and
> >disappear as they are connected and disconnected.
> >  
> >
> Good point. To be honest I would rather have hot-pluggable devices 
> belong in the notification area of control-panel.
> 
> You forgot to mention Trash (which I would prefer on the panel as well).

The problem with placing any of these things on the panel is that panel
icons do not have labels like desktop icons do. These labels are
invaluable in the case of things like trash for telling you how many
items are in it, and essential in the case of mounted drives which may
have identical icons.

Best, Darren

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