Bug 131649

Summary:	Add to panel dialog - confusing behaviour
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Component:	gnome-panel	Assignee:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	nobody+bclark
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Description Matthias Clasen 2004-09-02 20:36:06 UTC

If I double click on the first item, a whole different list of items
appears - thats confusing. If I double click on something else, it
gets added to the panel.

Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2004-09-03 08:05:08 UTC

Well, its got "Application Launcher..." to indicate more input is
required and the button changes to "Forward" ... the behaviour is
supposed to be similar to that of a druid.

Maybe we could come up with a better visual queue that adding a
launcher requires going to another page. Any ideas Bryan?

(The whole dialog needs a good looking at upstream, so lets keep this
bug to just looking for something small to reduce the confusion. If we
can't think of anything, then any large scale changes should be
tracked upstream)

Comment 2 Bryan W Clark 2004-09-03 22:10:00 UTC

There really isn't much that can be done here.  The dialog needs a lot
of love and the kind of love that we can only do in upstream.  The
buttons changing from Add to Forward when you select launcher vs. the
rest and I believe the HIG states explicitely against doing.  Hmmm...

Most people don't use this dialog for adding launchers anyway. 
Windows doesn't even provide this type of method to add them, it's all
drag and drop as far as I remember.  There are many other ways to add
launchers, most are from the panel context menus or drag and drop,
which should be fine.

Upstream we really need to start looking at what's going to happen
with the panel for the next release.  Seth and I came up with some
mockups, a mixture of what I think Mark had originally suggested with
some thoughts we've had.

Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2004-09-06 06:53:59 UTC

Closing ...