https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446031
Nate Graham <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REPORTED |CONFIRMED See Also| |https://bugs.kde.org/show_b | |ug.cgi?id=390817 Ever confirmed|0 |1 CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <[email protected]> --- This is one of the painful things that happens because of our flexibility. We don't offer only one way to do things, but rather multiple ones. But each one has non-obvious characteristics and traits and limitations and it just ends up being confusing for people. One thing we could maybe do is remove the "Copy" menu item when dragging a desktop file from a launcher to the desktop. Actually duplicating the desktop file is almost certainly not what the user wants. That's probably worth a separate bug report as hopefully it shouldn't be controversial. Of the remaining options, it's tricky. "Link" creates a Windows-style link that Windows users at least will be familiar with. Most of them have tons of links on the desktop. And this approach it has the advantage of being interactive as a normal filesystem item, because that's what it is. It's simple and familiar and comprehensible. "Add icon" creates a Plasma launcher widget, which does not behave as a filesystem item, because that's not what it is. It's an applet that responds to a click. Putting launchers on the desktop is a somewhat uncommon thing. For that matter these days it's somewhat uncommon to even put launchers on a panel, since panels typically have a Task Manager applet on them, and these let you pin apps to them. So this also relates to Bug 390817. Not sure there's a good solution there. If I could wave a magic wand, I'd universally remove the ability to create launcher applet via drag-and-drop and force people to manually add them. People who want them generally know what they want, whereas people who don't will often get them anyway by accident because they don't underatand the subste and unintuitive differences between these things. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
