The sidebar displays an icon representing the window's current context.  At
least, it *looks* like an icon.  But it's not really an icon: it's a picture of
an icon with none of the associated behaviors.

The sidebar icon should behave more like a real icon.  In particular, it should
offer the following three behaviors:

	1. Right mouse clicking on the sidebar icon should bring up the same context
menu one would expect to see if right clicking on the corresponding icon in the
main view area of the parent folder.

	2. Dropping other files' icons onto the sidebar icon should be equivalent to
dropping them on the corresponding icon in the main view area of the parent
folder.

	3. Dragging the sidebar icon should be equivalent to dragging the corresponding
icon in the main view area of the parent folder.

Note that the last of these is an extremely conventient way to delete folders. 
You view the folder's contents, decide that there is nothing of interest, and
immediately drag the sidebar icon itself to the Trash.  This is rather more
conventient than what one must do currently: click "Up", look around for the
proper subfolder icon, and only then drag it to the Trash.

In all honesty, I must admit that this is not an original concept.  I know that
Windows ME does this, and I'm pretty sure that Windows 2000 does as well.  It's
mightly convenient.



------- Additional Comments From andy@eazel.com 2001-01-09 22:51:32 ----

I agree with most of this, but we won't have time to do it until after 1.0. 





------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-02-09 11:35:30 ----

Duane is now the proud new QA owner of 'Sidebar', and 'Sidebar Panel: (Other)'.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-26 11:07:51 ----

QA Assigning to self.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:51 -------