On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:12:39 -0800 (PST) P Purkayastha <ppu...@gmail.com> said:

> 
> 
> On Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:14:43 AM UTC+8, The Rasterman Carsten 
> Haitzler wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:31:36 +0100 Davide Andreoli <
> > da...@gurumeditation.it>
> > said:
> > > leaving places in EXTRA solved this problem, places is an 'alternative 
> > way'
> > > to manage device on your desktop, in the case you don't like the way
> > > efm does it. For example I don't like the mount/umount stuff and the fact
> > > that your device are shown as icon, I also prefer a clean desktop, 
> > without
> > > icons on it.
> >
> > but that IS what places does. not only does it add icons, it also adds a 
> > large
> > blob of extra text. your desktop is far from "clean" with places there. i
> > don;'t; get the "i hate icons on desktop, but love places and put it 
> > there" as
> > it's the exact same thing, in-fact icons use less space and are less busy 
> > so
> > the desktop is "cleaner" without places.
> >
> Actually the original places module had a very clean presence on the 
> desktop. It used to show no internal drives and it would be completely 
> invisible  when placed as a gadget. Even mouse clicks would go right 
> through it to the desktop. *Only* when you plugged in an external drive, it 
> would show the device icon and show other options. I really enjoyed using 
> places this way. Invisible until you need it and when you want it opens the 
> drives on the fm of your choosing.

thats EXACTLY how efm works by default. just delete the icons for root/home/tmp
- they are just files. delete them. u'll have ONLY icons for removable devices.
(well and anything else u have in ~/Desktop)


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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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