<quote who="Johannes Rohr"> > > You can't. Nautilus draws a window on top of the root window. That's the > > only sane way to get desktop file management working. > > Not the only _possible_ way. GMC sucked, yes, but it did not interfere > with the desktop background. With GMC and E you could do exactly what the > original poster wants. There are more apps that draw icons on the desktop, > dfm comes to mind which also does not touch the background. > > I'd assume that the only valid technical reason why nautilus always has to > grab desktop background image management is that earlier versions (1.x) > had their own built-in anti-aliasing. Something which is clearly obsolete > now.
Noooo... You can't take keyboard focus on the root window, with every icon being a different window. Plus a series of other things. http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/desktop-as-window.mbox - Jeff -- GNOME Summit 2003: New York, USA http://www.nylxs.com/events/gnome/ "They are, as I told Telsa, all very small cheques. Indeed our cheques only come in one size, otherwise cheque books would be far too hard to manufacture." - Alan Cox
