Re: [Nautilus-list] reset.png

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Thursday, July 19, 2001, at 04:52  PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> I just saw the "reset.png" hack again in gnome-terminal. It's
> spreading!
>
> If we are going to spread this around it really needs fixing. Is the
> issue that whoever implemented this didn't know how to do it
> correctly?

Andy did it. He loves shortcuts like this. I should have talked him out of 
it in the first place.

> The way to do it correctly is to have a magic drop type,
> such as x-gnome-reset-background or something.
> Then, if the user drags the Reset icon, you offer that drop type
> instead of the filename or image type you are currently using.
> On the drop side, you advertise that you can accept both
> x-gnome-reset-background or a filename/image. And you see which one
> you received, and act accordingly. It's really not harder to implement
> than the bad hack. ;-)

I agree.

    -- Darin