mattwnz: Who even uses it these days, just press delete.

Yabanize:

mattwnz: Who even uses it these days, just press delete.

When you press delete you're still using it. Delete sends an item to the recycle bin unless it is too large or you have the delete permanently option turned on

gehenna: Why they don't just integrate it with the taskbar or system tray directly is beyond me.

mattwnz:

Yabanize:

mattwnz: Who even uses it these days, just press delete.

When you press delete you're still using it. Delete sends an item to the recycle bin unless it is too large or you have the delete permanently option turned on

Yes, but the intention of it being on the desktop, is to drag and drop a file to it. As you will see, Windows 10 still puts the icon on the desktop for this purpose. If it is going to be there at all, it should be on the taskbar. It makes more sense to have an explorer icon, which has the recycle folder inside it. I can't tell you how many people still ask me how to access the windows explorer.

gehenna: I think the intention of it being in the desktop is to have deleted files quickly recoverable. I've never known anyone to drag files to the recycle bin but I'm sure it happens. But I think it's more the former than the latter. In which case an integrated taskbar button would work just as well.

 

1. I know I could click on the document icon on the desktop to select it, then hit Delete on the keyboard, but when I click on the document my hand is already on the mouse so why not drag it straight to the recycle bin instead of taking my hand off the mouse, looking for the Delete key, then pressing that?
   
   
2. There's probably 32 better ways of planning my whole workflow, but this works quite well.

Behodar: I've found that I tend to keep my Mac's desktop a lot tidier than my Windows PC's and I wonder whether that's because I can get my Mac's down to zero icons.