Launcher - Dragging a Launcher icon to the Trash should remove the icon

[John Lea]

Dragging a Launcher icon to the Trash should remove the icon.

Description:

Currently, the only way to remove a launcher icon is to drag it away from the launcher. This needs to change so that to remove a icon from the launcher you drag and drop it in the Trash.

Change request:

1) Remove the "X" that appears when the icon is dragged away from the Launcher (see attached screenshot)

3) Remove the ability to icons to be removed through dragging and dropping onto the right hand side of the screen.

2) Enable icons to be removed by dragging and dropping on top of the Trash can. If the application is running when this action is performed the application should also quit.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Dumb question: what happens if the launcher icon that is dropped on the Trash corresponds to a still running? Would it:

 a. Terminate the application?
 b. Remove the persistent launcher, but allow the icon to remain while running?
 c. Do nothing
 d. Do nothing and warn the user (eg. visually by not allowing it be dropped or showing a no-entry sign)

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

On 03/12/10 15:51, Paul Sladen wrote:
> b. Remove the persistent launcher, but allow the icon to remain while running?

Unpin the launcher, which unfortunately *looks* like a noop until the
app quits. If we had a refinement of the visual treatment for running
apps which are not pinned, this would at least allow us to signal the
change.

Mark

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Similarly here - why drop this?

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

@Mark: same explanation as the other bug. It will not make it for feature freeze and will be re-scheduled very soon.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 3.6.8-0ubuntu1

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unity (3.6.8-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - crash at the second drag and drop from an unity place (LP: #736704)
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      (LP: #694699)
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      (LP: #692823)
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      directory name: "/desktop/unity/launcher/favorites/app-
      dc++.desktop/type": `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names
      (LP: #737016)
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    - The Unity P...

[Aritchie (aritchie)]

Hmm, well I take it from reading some of the duplicates that it might sometime before this is implemented in unity-2d because of the current "internal plumbing". Well, it is what it is. Maybe it should be just left to just using the context menu?