Re: [Usability]Question: Direct manipulation & panels

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

John,

If you want to file a feature request for this I'll certainly lend my
support. It sounds like a great idea.

-Seth

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 01:49, John F Dixon Iv wrote:
> Why is the trash can located on the desktop? Why is it not located on a 
> panel?
> It seems to me that it is a pain to have to dig underneath all of my 
> windows to put something in the trash. I know there are other ways to 
> remove a file, but it just seems like a panel would be a better place 
> for the trash can for those users who actually drag files to the trash 
> can. If dragging files onto icons on the panel were allowed, it would be 
> really easy to delete files, print files, or enqueue songs in xmms, etc. 
> But, by placing them on the desktop makes this too hard.
> Are their plans to allow users to drag files onto icons on the panel?
> thanks,
> john
> 
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