GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 160477
Enable multiple selection in "Add to ____ Panel" dialog
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:13:52 UTC
This dialog found by rihgt clciking the panel, then "add to panel", closes after adding one applet. Ideas: * right click context menu -> add to panel/remove from panel * Have the dialog stay open until you press Cancel. Also "Cancel" should probably be renamed to "Close" since you don't revert anything. Other information: Maybe more organization..it's hard to find the "custom application launcher" in this huge list. The menu was better organization-wise. Thing should be split up a bit, maybe how Microsoft did their "set progtam and access programs" windows: http://www.theeldergeek.com/images/SP1/SP103.gif "Application Launcher' odesn't act like anything else in that dialog. Move it somewhere else in the dialog. Same with Custom Application Launcher.
Created attachment 34498 [details] Idea for "custom app lacunher" placement
The second part of your bug is already fixed in 2.9.x As for the first part, this was a decision we made. But we might have been wrong :-) I don't know if people will want to add one or many applets most of the time... Usavility people: what do you think?
Since it's a list, I don't see any harm in supporting Ctrl+Click and Shift+Click for multiple selection.
Well, multiple selection is a feature that doesn't add any clutter to the interface or affect the behaviour for users who only want to add one applet, so it would probably be a nice addition. (Although I agree it's likely to be a pretty rarely-used feature, so I guess you've got to balance that against the complexity of the fix...)
This wouldn't be too difficult, I think. But what should be done if the user selects an applet and the "Application launcher..." item? This item changes the "Add" button into a "Next" button because we need to present the list of applications to the user.
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*** Bug 163095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I am relatively new to both Linux and gnome, but immediately noticed that I could not add multiple applets in Ubuntu. For my laptop, I had to repeat this procedure several times. It would be really great to be able to select all of my preferred applets (battery status, logout, cpu freq, etc.) all at once. I could then go back later and change them if necessary. These are just my thoughts as a newbie. :)
What about enabling multiple selection except when the user selects "Application launcher..."? The only problem here would be to determine what happens when the user has already a selection an tries to add "Application launcher..." to the selection
*** Bug 167239 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 316231 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Adding a tip that says "You can drag icons to the panel." at the bottom of "Add to Panel" window I think might be good too. The panel is a large thing and draging gives you contorl of where stuff should go not just to pile it up.
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