[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 11586] Places above devices in shortcuts in side pane

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11586

--- Comment #14 from Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to alexxcons from comment #12)
> Agreed .. I did not think about that one.

Here was the irc discussion we had about it.

brainwash> jphilips: I didn't notice it yesterday.. but why where Trash and
Files System moved down inside their groups?
<jphilips> brainwash: its there in the commit. to unify their position with
tree view
<brainwash> I suggest to move at least file system up again
<brainwash> it should be on position 1
<jphilips> what is the argument behind that
<brainwash> it's part of the system you use
<brainwash> the reason why it is at the bottom in tree view is that it
functions as last node
<brainwash> find last node -> put mounts/volumes above it
<brainwash> this could be changed, but the original author did it this way
<jphilips> my reasoning for it, in addition to unifying it with tree view, is
that the order should be sorted by what is most used. it is more likely that a
user would access their partitions and plugged in usb drive or phone over
access the root file system
<brainwash> but if you have plenty of devices, they will move the file system
entry even further down
<brainwash> we already moved the whole group down
<brainwash> I mean you didn't network above devices, right?
<brainwash> despite that being the case in tree view
<jphilips> network is an entire group
<brainwash> network group about devices group
<jphilips> i plan to move network down in tree view
<brainwash> above
<jphilips> less people access the network than devices
<brainwash> but then you most likely will move mounts/volumes below file system
too
<jphilips> we seem to be misunderstanding each other. i plan to move network
after file system in tree view, so its unified with shortcut view
<brainwash> I simply don't like that
<brainwash> why not move it up to places?
<jphilips> move network up to places?
<brainwash> file system
<jphilips> seems reasonable to be at the bottom of places in shortcut view, but
what are your thoughts of why it was put at the top of devices
<brainwash> because it is /
<brainwash> (root)
<brainwash> or you mean why at all?
<jphilips> i meant why at all, as do you consider root a device and if so, then
it would more logically have to stay under devices
<brainwash> jphilips: I want easy access to File System
<brainwash> and it not being pushed down so that I have to scroll down
<brainwash> it used to be at the very top of the side pane
<brainwash> not anymore
<jphilips> so i presume you have alot of devices
<brainwash> I'm aware that Computer -> File System
<brainwash> but that is two clicks
<brainwash> you don't even need that many devices, just a smaller window
<jphilips> at 1/4th my screen resolution, i only see places, so i would need to
scroll to get to anything below it
<jphilips> i'm at 1440x900
<brainwash> time to link this one again
https://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers-years/2018-2/xubuntu-cosmic-file-manager-icons.png
<jphilips> as you said, its more important for you to have file system at the
top, and i believe its better it to be at the bottom, i guess we can leave it
to alexxcons to do be the tie breaker
<jphilips> or the middle ground of it being at the bottom of places

> I will as well move trash back to its original place ... if it should be
> moved, we need to talk about it first.
> (Sorry, I was to fast with applying the patch)

Sorry i thought you would have read the commit message. About trash, should the
discussion happen here or in another bug report.

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