Re: [Usability] New "Add to panel" dialog

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Vidar Braut Haarr wrote:

> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:54:03 +0200
> From: Vidar Braut Haarr <vhaarr+usability gmail com>
> To: Manu Cornet <Manu Cornet gmail com>
> Cc: usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] New "Add to panel" dialog
>
> On 10/20/05, Manu Cornet <Manu Cornet gmail com> wrote:
> > I have been working on a new version of the "add to panel" dialog, for
> > the Ubuntu distro. This dialog is already available by default in the
> > new Ubuntu "Breezy Badger" version.
>
> What immediately strikes me about this dialog is how much it resembles
> Nautilus viewing a folder in icon mode.
>
> "Don't reimplement the wheel."
>
> Lets say this whole thing was made into a special location
> ("applets:///" or whatever),

Or a folder containing a bunch of launcher files (no need for nasty new
URIs, and standard file tools can be used)

but yeah I had a similar feeling in case I didn't make it clear in my
previous post

> what would we miss from your proposed
> dialog here if we moved to using Nautilus?

Like I said the notion of treating everything as a file is a very powerful
one which continues to be applicable.  making things work in a generic and
consistent way has interesting implications and makes any new tools much
more reusable instead of having to implement applications specific search
tools each time.

- Alan