Launcher - If the 'trash can' is already open, clicking on it's Launcher icon should focus the already open trash window

Bug #947007 reported by Nick
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Committed
Medium
John Lea
Unity
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Clicking on the trash can launcher icon when it is already loaded will load the trash can again rather than bring the existing trash can into focus.

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Desired Solution:

- If a 'trash' Nautilus window is already open, clicking on the Trash Launcher icon should focus the already open Nautilus window that is currently displaying the trash

- However 'window open' or 'running' triangles *should not* be displayed (on either side of the Trash icon)

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Nick (soapduk) wrote :
Changed in bamf:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in bamf (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in bamf:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
Changed in bamf (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

needs-design input. IIRC this was proposed and then rejected or there is already a bug report about this issue somewhere.

no longer affects: bamf (Ubuntu)
affects: bamf → ayatana-design
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance: Low → Undecided
status: Confirmed → New
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in unity:
importance: Low → Undecided
milestone: backlog → none
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → Undecided
Revision history for this message
Nick (soapduk) wrote :

The first point regarding the arrow and how it is integrated with nautilus may require design input but the second point: loading a second trash can when clicking on launcher icon is a bug IMO and is probably easily fixed by checking if there is an instance of nautilus currently running which is also currently displaying the trash folder (or directory).

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Devil's advocate #1: The Trash is a non-application item, just like the Dash and the workspace switcher are. They don't have pips when they're open either.

Devil's advocate #2: The Trash is just a folder, and you can navigate from it to other folders. Should the Trash have a running pip when it's open, but lose the pip if you click any of the other folders in its sidebar?

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Nick (soapduk) wrote :

Fair points there Mathew regarding the 'pip' and as stated I thought they might be hard to deal with. I believe my second point still stands however, that clicking on the trash when it is already open should show the existing trash folder (by checking if there is an existing nautilus folder open and currently displaying the trash folder) rather than open a duplicate.

To address your points though, I'd say:
-#1: nautilus is the lens, and the trash 'app' is open when the trash folder is open in nautilus.
-#2: yes.

John Lea (johnlea)
summary: - 'trash can' launcher icon does not indicate it is running
+ If the 'trash can' is already open, clicking on it's Launcher icon
+ should focus the already open trash window
John Lea (johnlea)
description: updated
tags: added: udp
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - If the 'trash can' is already open, clicking on it's Launcher icon
- should focus the already open trash window
+ Launcher - If the 'trash can' is already open, clicking on it's Launcher
+ icon should focus the already open trash window
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
Tim Penhey (thumper)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Edward Donovan (edward.donovan) wrote :

> there is already a bug report about this issue somewhere.

Omer was right, bug 692444 is the same. There's been work this month, too, though not linked to the bug yet:

  https://code.launchpad.net/~brandontschaefer/unity/one-trash-can

(Both bugs have some good discussion; there's a lot more on the other one, not that quantity is necessarily better. :)

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