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Bug 105638 - Can't drop the entries in "Actions" menu to the desktop
Can't drop the entries in "Actions" menu to the desktop
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.14.x
Other other
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 314252 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-02-09 14:35 UTC by sherw
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14



Description sherw 2003-02-09 14:35:13 UTC
Well, you can't drop the entries in "Actions" menu to the desktop. :-)
Comment 1 Alex Duggan 2003-03-22 01:28:19 UTC
moving to GNOMEVER2.2
Comment 2 Christian Neumair 2004-06-09 16:45:25 UTC
Thanks for your bug report. Some thoughts:
Why should you be able to do so? Not all of them (gnome-panel-screenshot does)
represent applications, they trigger internal panel actions which then
potentially result in some user visible action. I don't think we can generate
desktop suitable launchers. Is there any point in having them on the desktop?

regs,
 Chris
Comment 3 sherw 2004-06-15 20:56:42 UTC
The point is exactly the same of having any other application on the desktop.
The user doesn't know/care about the implementation, if he can add the icon to
the panel, he expects to be able to put it on desktop as well.
Comment 4 Mantas Kriaučiūnas 2004-08-12 15:00:27 UTC
Also there should be an ability to add some launchers from the desktop (or any
other place) to the Actions menu.

It would be a very useful feature, users want to have an ability to customize
the Actions menu, there are several bugreports about this ( for example #98222 ).

It seems adding this feature doesn't change any translatable strings, so it
could be included ASAP (before gnome 2.8). Should I report another bug or we can
just change summary of this bugreport?
Comment 5 Vincent Untz 2004-08-16 09:17:45 UTC
Mantas: please open an enhancement bug (and note that it breaks feature freeze)
Comment 6 Vincent Untz 2005-09-16 15:31:51 UTC
*** Bug 314252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Fabio Bonelli 2006-07-09 11:30:13 UTC
Still there in 2.14.
Comment 8 rhi 2007-10-19 16:46:54 UTC
Still there in 2.20

Related to bug #357934
Comment 9 rhi 2007-10-19 16:49:12 UTC
Actually, you can drag & drop entries to the desktop at the moment, but then the folders are COPIES to ~/Desktop instead of a starter being created. "Personal home" can't be dropped to the desktop at all: "can't copy folder to itself" (it tries to copy it)
Comment 10 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:20:38 UTC
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