Re: Trash applet and Trash icon: d'n'd

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Son, 2004-12-05 at 18:44 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le dimanche 05 décembre 2004 à 16:31 +0100, Luca Ferretti a écrit :
> >         Clock: each instance could show time and date for a different
> >         timezone. Unfortunately by now it's not possible :-([1]
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88754
> 
> > So the philosophy is: "Don't prevent user to add a second applet, but
> > warn him if the second instance could not be useful." 
> 
> I'm not fond of adding a dialog that pops up like this when I add an
> applet that should have only one instance.
> 
> Isn't the user intelligent enough to determine if a second instance
> might be useful for him? I mean, if he adds a second instance of the
> trash applet and then finds out that it's useless, he'll remove it. I'm
> not sure adding a dialog is that useful in this case.

I fully agree, this dialog would just be annoying for users who want
multiple trash applets - what for example may perfectly make sense in
multi monitor environments.

Jürg

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