The many modes of the dock's trashcan

Oct 19, '01 12:38:12AM

Contributed by: robg

The trashcan icon in the dock (but not on the desktop, if you've implemented that hack) has many different faces, depending on what's being dropped on it. I was quite familiar with the standard "trash" function, of course ... and I'd gotten used to the Eject symbol when a removable drive was dragged onto the trash. But the Burn symbol and the scissors were new to me.

You see the burn symbol when you drag a recordable disc onto the trash (I guess I use the contextual menus too much, as I'd never seen it!). A dialog then pops-up asking if you'd like to cancel, burn, or eject. The scissors were pointed out in an email on the Omnigroup's OS X Talk mailing list. You get the scissors when you drag an icon from the Finder toolbar to the trashcan, I suppose to represent you cutting the icon from the toolbar.

Any more trashcan states that haven't been identified here?

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