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Bug 45550 - sidebar icon should offer context menu, drag target, drop target
sidebar icon should offer context menu, drag target, drop target
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Sidebar
2.11.x
Other Linux
: Low enhancement
: future
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 47828 48305 90653 90656 163683 310389 470094 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-01-10 03:16 UTC by Ben Liblit
Modified: 2011-08-18 21:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Ben Liblit 2001-09-10 00:51:19 UTC
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 -------
Comment 1 Benedikt Roth 2001-10-28 13:18:16 UTC
*** Bug 48305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Andrew Sobala 2002-06-07 15:39:36 UTC
*** Bug 47828 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-09-02 06:05:28 UTC
*** Bug 90653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-09-02 06:07:02 UTC
*** Bug 90656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Aschwin van der Woude 2003-05-03 20:12:15 UTC
The usability team should munge over this.
Comment 6 Sebastien Bacher 2005-01-31 20:38:12 UTC
*** Bug 163683 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Vincent Noel 2005-07-14 17:57:21 UTC
*** Bug 310389 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-08-02 13:26:35 UTC
*** Bug 470094 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 André Klapper 2011-08-18 21:01:00 UTC
Sidebar only offers "Places" and "Tree" anymore in 3.1.4, plus the icon mentioned in this report seems to not exist anymore (as the complete header line design has changed).

Closing as OBSOLETE but please reopen if I misunderstood something and if this is still valid in 3.0/3.1.