This sounds like a good solution.
Cam
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Calum Benson
<Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
Heh. Perhaps a still-useful, but less surprising approach would be to make double-clicking the desktop == open ~/Desktop in a file manager window? (I.e. make it a shortcut for Places->Desktop).
What if the first time the user doubleclicks on the desktop background we show a dialog saying:
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You have double clicked on desktop background, choose the action you want to be performed when this happens:
o Show the Desktop (minimize all opened windows)
o Open Desktop folder in a new window
[x] Do not show this dialog again
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Advantages of this dialog are:
- We avoid the problem of people that double click unintentionally and gets surprised by their windows disappeared.
- Gives the user a way to learn the feature.
- Gives the user more choice on what action to execute.
