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Re: [Ayatana] The Wall instead of "Desktop"

On 01/04/2011 01:12 PM, Luke Benstead wrote:
another thing that disturbed me was that i now had no generic place to put stuff which i didn't want to have in my face all the time..


^^ this

I only ever use the desktop for stuff I need temporarily or that is yet to be organized. I wish there was a corner of the screen where I could drag files into a "box" that was then hidden away (autohide-style) where I could retrieve them later. I'd also like to be able to save files to this box (e.g. download files to it). Sometimes I'd like to empty it (which would move the files to the rubbish bin). I'm visualising a slide-out drawer here.

The big problem with using the Desktop for this functionality is you have to clear your workspace while you access the contents. What I'd like, (and I'm sure I'm not alone) is a globally and quickly accessible temporary storage area which is similar to the Rubbish Bin, but more accessible and for stuff not necessarily destined for deletion.

how about a place called "Recent" ?
Places > Recent.
e.g. Applications could offer it for File>Open Recent.
or you could select it in the gtk-file-chooser thingy e.g. on "import" or "open" in just about any application.

Imagine:
you just downloaded a .gif from a website, now you opened the GIMP and you want to open the file in the GIMP (that's how many people do it): you don't even have to remember anymore, where you dropped it to! just find the recently downloaded, received or created object in Places>Recent, select it, click open.

In this case, Places>Recent would need to be forgetful, dumping its content into Places>Archive after a while (or when it's getting crowded.. for v2.0 ;) )


Luke.

thanks so much for the link to the board project in your previous mail!!!