Re: [PATCH] Allow to remove computer, home folder, trash from desktop by dragging them to trash



Am Mittwoch, den 13.07.2005, 14:36 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:14 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 13.07.2005, 14:11 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> > > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 23:22 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > > From bug 155771 [1]:
> > > > 
> > > > "Removal of computer/desktop/trash icons from desktop unintuitive
> > > > 
> > > > For example: Removing the Wastebasket/Trash icon. The only reason I
> > > > managed to find out how to get rid of it was looking at bugzilla."
> > > > 
> > > > Note that I'm strduping the name of the desktop items instead of using
> > > > predefined names like "Trash", "Computer" or "Home" because people
> > > > complained in bugzilla that if they name their trash foobar it should be
> > > > referred to as foobar elsewhere.
> > > > 
> > > > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155771
> > > 
> > > The problem here is that this is an immutable operation. There is no way
> > > to undo this without using gconf. One way operations like that are not
> > > very nice.
> > 
> > I don't quiet get why you keep disputing with our usability crew. I
> > don't say Alan is godlike. But he understands way more from usability
> > than we do, just like you understand way more from programming and
> > project organization than I do.
> 
> You used to be able to delete the icons, but we got bug reports that
> this was confusing, so it was removed. I'm sure we can find usability
> experts who argue both ways.


So the trash shouldn't be sensitive if the selection contains the home
or the computer icon, right? Or should we display a dialog with
instructions on how to remove them?

-- 
Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>

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