no more icons

Jani Monoses jani.monoses at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 16:04:05 UTC 2006


On 10/25/06, Ronnie Whisler <mrwislr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did any of these "developers"  try using the trashcan panel   when the
> panel has autohide enabled?  My guess is they did not.... why?  Because
> it doesnt' work.... Rendering the trashcan unusable..... Also why is
> this clean desktop sooooo important.... there are many many many
> individuals out there using linux/xubuntu because a friend set it up
> for them on their old computers..... THESE PEOPLE NEED THOSE ICONS.....

The trashcan is unusable indeed in the case you. But deleting
something is not and that is the main idea. Pressing delete is surely
easier than dragging something to the trash icon.
If not DnD is available in thunar.

> but as always the linux developers don't think about that.... then they
> write articles yelling about how linux isn't gaining wider
> acceptance.....  AND I simply love how this decision was made
> immediately before the last release..... when everything is frozen...
> if this clean desktop was so important why didn't you remove them a lot
> earlier......  friggin sneaky and actually really really dumb..... your

it was not removed earlier as I hoped upstream will make it
configurable. That did not
happen and I had no time to do it so just went for the easiest solution.

Jani




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