Some feedback on the Trash Applet

[jorge o. castro]

Ok, I must be a poor mouse marskman, but does anyone have any problems 
"hitting" the trash applet when deleting files?

When I used to have the can on the desktop the icon was the same size as 
the file icons I was dragging into it. But every once in a while, I'd 
miss, and you end up with the icon slightly overlaying the trash can. 
Then you had to carefully select the icon and then put it in the trash.

Since the default panel is small, the trash is now a small target. Now, 
instead of missing the the can, the file I meant to delete either:

a) Gets put on the panel right next to the trash applet. If this is an 
image file you meant to delete, then the panel just uses that image as a 
background. Whoa!

or, even worse

b) I inavertently drop the icon right above the panel. Depending on 
where you grabbed the icon to begin with, Nautilus puts it half off the 
screen. If you grabbed a group of files, then they're all off the screen 
now also.

When deleting things like a thumbnailed movie, the icon is relatively 
huge compared to the trash, so I can't really pinpoint where exactly the 
icon is going to drop.

I realize that the applet is at the very bottom right of the panel by 
default, and that just slamming the mouse to the bottom right will do 
the job, but for some reason I just keep missing it. On a laptop with a 
trackpoint or a touchpad I find it even harder to use.

Am I the only one, or should the applet provide better feedback and a 
larger target area when you're close to the mark? Thoughts?

-jorge

PS - For a real good time, move the applet to any place that isn't a 
corner, like, for example, if you have multiple monitors, the far right 
corner of the left monitor. This amplifies the elusiveness of the Trash Can.