Roger Diggle said: >I've found myself wishing that I could open the desktop folder >in list mode... I'd be able to see what was on my too-crowded >desktop without collapsing windows... especially when I wanted >to drag something from the desktop into one of those windows. >Or perhaps I dropped something too close to the edge of the >screen and the finder placed it - hidden - off the edge. > >It would also have been handy for me when backing up, since I >did my back-ups for years without special software. Since the >desktop folder is treated specially by the finder, backing up >and restoring items on the desktop was sometimes sketchy. I >think it would be great if the desktop folder was just treated >as a normal folder, except for its special purpose.
It is treated like a normal folder. You can open the desktop folder in list mode. Also the OS 9 desktop. At least in 10.2. You just won't have the drives there, because they are not *there*. In reality the desktop folders are on the drive. When you get the drives on the desktop, the icons are only sharing space with the files in the desktop folder. For me that makes sense. What's the problem you have with this concept? ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
