The trash can

[Anders Karlsson]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 10:39 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> This is probably totally obvious but so far I haven't managed.
> 
> How does one make the trashcan appear as a desktop icon?  I tried
> dragging the thing on to the desktop which didn't work. I tried the
> 'create launcher' but no trashcan available.  I searched the forums and
> found a solution but it mentioned opening the 'configuration editor'
> from a System Tools menu which I don't have. (Dapper)

If you install gtweakui you get some extra tools in System ->
Preferences, one being 'gTweakUI - Nautilus'. You get a checkbox for a
set of icons you want displayed on the desktop, one being the Trashcan.

Or you could use gconf-editor and do it by hand. apps -> nautilus ->
desktop -> check the 'trash_icon_visible' box.

> The problem with the trashcan in the task bar is that it's too small, it
> looks like an empty battery indicator (the new Dapper theme), when you
> right click to empty it then you get loads of menu options with bright
> icons next to them EXCEPT the obvious one of 'Empty trash'. (SO many
> times I selected 'Remove from Panel' when I wanted to just empty it..
> Because 'remove from panel' has an icon with it (the blue minus sign)
> which kind of intuitively felt like it would get rid of the trashcan
> items, but instead it of course gets rid of the trashcan itself. 

You can switch off the showing of icons in the menus, that'd remove the
bling and only give you the text. Or you could remember that for all
applets, the 'blue minus' means 'remove me'. ;-)

> I really think the trashcan needs simple layout-work. It should look
> less like an empty battery, and it needs less options when
> right-clicked, AND the most prominent options (icon and all) should be
> just 'Open' and 'Empty Trash'.  'Nice to have' would be a button to
> empty the trash once it's opened. 

The button I agree with, not the rest, but then I've never been in such
a hurry to empty the trashcan I've instead removed the icon from the
panel.

Regards,

-- 
Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>
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