[wishlist] Should unmount Volume or close Application when dropped over the trash in Docky

[narrowtux]

Hi, it would be cool if a running Application was closed when it is dropped over the trash of Docky.
And it would also be nice if this would work with unmounting Volumes.

Some people might know this Feature from MacOS X. However, it doesn't actually work with nautilus (it asks if would like to directly remove the file because it couldn't been moved to the trash...)

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

I doubt we will be doing this as it breaks with nautilus behavior

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 16:54 +0000, narrowtux wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Hi, it would be cool if a running Application was closed when it is dropped over the trash of Docky.
> And it would also be nice if this would work with unmounting Volumes.
>
> Some people might know this Feature from MacOS X. However, it doesn't
> actually work with nautilus (it asks if it should directly remove the
> file because it couldn't been moved to the trash...)
>
> ** Affects: do
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

 status incomplete
 assign raof

I, personally, think that this behaviour is the biggest mis-feature in
the OS:X dock, and I think the other developers agree.

I'll raise this in our IRC channel, #gnome-do for discussion.

You are welcome to try to convince us that this is good and useful
behaviour. To do this, you would want to make an argument as to why
this method is easier/more discoverable/faster than the existing methods
to close a window/unmount a drive.

The fact that the OS:X dock does this will not be considered a
convincing argument :)!

[narrowtux (narrow-m)]

Right, I also don't think that the fact with the OS X Dock is the convincing argument, it was only intended to be an example.

It would be a logical treatment of the applications though. If the trash stands for deleting things, why not also for closing or unmounting? It would also go hand-in-hand with the feature of deleting an application shortcut from docky (an application that isn't running). If someone is used to this feature, he will ask, why he can't close running applications in the same way.

Why this method is faster as others: You simply drag the icon to the trash and drop it there -> 1 leftclick. The usually way: rightclick the icon, waiting a second until the docky context-menu appears and clicking "Close" -> 2 clicks and some waiting time.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

> It would be a logical treatment of the applications though. If the trash
> stands for deleting things, why not also for closing or unmounting? It
> would also go hand-in-hand with the feature of deleting an application
> shortcut from docky (an application that isn't running). If someone is
> used to this feature, he will ask, why he can't close running
> applications in the same way.

In what way is closing an application or ejecting a CD the same as
deleting a file? I certainly don't want to put my CD in the garbage, I
just want to get it out of the computer!

How can I tell when dragging something onto the rubbish bin is going to
destroy some of my work? If I drag a USB stick to the rubbish bin, how
do I know this will unmount the USB stick rather than deleting the
contents? Or simply deleting the *icon* on my desktop?

I don't think this is a good metaphor. I believe this is a mis-feature
of the OS:X dock that we should not emulate.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Docky 1 (the Do theme version of Docky) has reached the end of its maintenance period and is no longer being supported. Docky 2 (the stand-alone application) is a complete rewrite and thus may or may not be affected by this bug.

Please feel free to install Docky 2 (PPA: https://edge.launchpad.net/~docky-core/+archive/ppa or souce: http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Installing_Docky) and see if your bug still occurs. If it does, please file the bug against lp:docky (not lp:do!).