Comment 2 for bug 767266

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

I am deeply disappointed that you're proposing to add a "Take This File And" submenu without including a "Shove It" item.

Seriously, though, this design needs a lot of work. For example:

- The "Preview" item doesn't exist currently. What would it do, specifically?

- Why are you adding a copy of the default "Open" action, "Open With" > "Whatever (default)", immediately below the original?

- How are the items in the "Take This File And" menu conceptually different from the items at the top level? In other words, how would someone be able to predict whether an item was in the "Take This File And" submenu? It looks like it could have been called "Miscellaneous".

- The "Print" item doesn't exist currently, and implementing it would be a few months work -- introducing an API for applications to launch directly to their Print dialog, then implementing and evangelizing that API for popular applications. Why not do this as a standalone project?

- How would someone be able to tell whether the "Share" and "Publish" items were related to Ubuntu One, Dropbox, or something else like WebDAV?

- If you're renaming "Make Link" to "Create Alias" in the shortcut menus, does that mean it should be renamed in the "Edit" menu too? (And is "alias" noticably more understandable than "link"? Why not "shortcut"?)

- Are the "Resize Icon" and "Restore Icon's Original Size" items intentionally removed? If so, that's fine by me, but what would happen to someone upgrading from a version of Ubuntu where they had resized some of their desktop icons?