joustlog

An irritating feature of the Gnome desktop is that when you have a remote folder or a CD/DVD drive, you can’t drag it to the Trash to remove or eject it. I always assumed it was something the Gnome team had overlooked, but over on the Gnome bug tracker you can see that they like this behavior, according to Red Hat developer Alexander Larsson who marked this bug as WONTFIX.

I can’t imagine what went through Alexander Larsson’s head when he made that decision. Maybe the team doesn’t have time to implement it, maybe they don’t understand their users, maybe I don’t understand Gnome’s users.

It seems completely obvious to me that if I drag a desktop icon to the Trash, I want it to go away. I don’t care how it’s done, if it means dropping the remote folder connection, or ejecting the CD, I want the icon gone.

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