> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:09:23 +0100 > From: Alexander Larsson <[email protected]> > > Yeah, trying to figure out ways to replace the features of the > desktop > is hard. The piles feature while cool doesn't solve the imho most > important aspect of being a default storage locations for new/active > files. So, I'm more and more disagreeing with removing the desktop > from being handled by the file manager.
I'm afraid I don't fully understand what is the exact perimeter of gnome-shell (window decorator, application launcher, deskbar replacement, and so on), and I really don't know whether it would be better for the desktop to be drawn by the file-manager or by g-s. But I'm pretty sure that the desktop, as a storage place for my prefered documents, or for documents I've to work on, or for anything I want, should absolutely be kept. As a sysadmin, I'm sometimes afraid when I see the desktop of some users who store each and every documents they receive in their desktop. This appears as very untidy to me ;-) Nonetheless, I also do use the desktop of that manner, though, of course, in a much more tidy way ;-), and I think most of us do so. I just don't understand why putting documents, file, links to application, and so on, on the desktop should be considered as inherently 'bad' (according to g-s specs). IMHO, this appears to me as just a sort of dogmatic position. If users consider that their desktop is just the right place to put their documents, who am I to decide something else ? > Of course, we should probably still think of ways we can change it to > work better in the gnome-shell world. For instance, maybe it would be > nice to be able to show different desktop contents on different > workspaces? This would match with using workspaces as a way to manage > separate "activities". Of course, that would be sort of problematic > when > you're accessing the desktop directory from e.g. the file selector. This surely be very nice to have a different set of desktop icons / background for each workspace, and according to bugzilla, this is a long time request of many users (see e.g. [1]). > > > What do you think of my proposal about piles? I personally like the idea of enhancing the current 2d-only desktop metaphor to a 3d view. Not sure if this is rather a pile or a stack, or if this should only host references or plain files... But being able to define some container, with a label and an icon, stack some docs in it, and then being able to thumb (foliate ?) through stacked documents should be great.. This was my own 2cents... Regards Pierre [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48004 _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
