Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

Extreme difficulty removing entries in the Places menu

Bug #38142 reported by Rune Maagensen
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #12445: right-click behaviour with gnome menu. Edit Remove
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Nominated for Karmic by ndMHcGFzqhcfQEAdTKmfxZqTbujWUyxE

Bug Description

I've added an FTP place in my places menu. All I did was to connect to server, and now it's there, never asked me to be a permanent through bootups.

I've been trying to remove the entry several times without luck. Rightclicking acts as leftclicking.

I've tried to open Networkservers and deleting the entry, not allowed.

Finally I thought of unmount and that worked.

Suggested changes:
Remove "Delete" and "Move to Thrash" for mounted network servers, they don't apply anyway
Enable rightcliking in the places menu (and the other menu for that sake). If I wanted a onebutton mouse i'd have bought a Mac.

Sorry for the angry tone, but this is something that needs to be changed. I'm aware that it's probably a "Design choise", but imho an choise as bad as can be.

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Vitor Hugo Barros (b4silence) wrote :

I totally agree with this opinion!!

The first thing the users tend to do when they want to delete, or to interact in anyway, with some item is to right-click it!

It was the first thing I tried and I am sure there's many more users like myself and Rune!

Please address this... This isn't a design problem... This is an USABILITY one...

Thanks

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Rich_phoenix (rich-phoenix) wrote :

I had the same problem. After spending HOURS AND HOURS on it. (partially finding out that they were REFERED to as Bookmarks, then fighting with the Help program (refering to how individual Applications deal with bookmarks).
I found the answer.

Places -> Network -> Bookmarks -> Edit Bookmarks -> (select the ftp server you want removed) -> Remove

Seems rather common sensical, but yes, I agree, a rightclick would work alot better,

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ndMHcGFzqhcfQEAdTKmfxZqTbujWUyxE (ndmhcgfzqhcfqeadtkmfxzqtbujwuyxe-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

as much as this bug is a dup of bug #12445, this one is the one that comes up in a google search. just an fyi.

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