On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Mike Cowlishaw <m...@speleotrove.com> wrote:
> I'm with Oliver on this one ...
>
> Applications that unilaterally add an icon to my Desktop drive me nuts.
> It's my desktop, damn it, I only what stuff on there that I determine are
> useful enough to be handy.
>
> Agree in principle, but also applications that offer one the option of
> adding an icon are welcome.
>
> Yes, I would surely make it optional in the installer.
>
> The installer could certainly put an icon on the desktop, but I fail to
> see why that is any better than the current entries in the Open Object Rexx
> Start Menu Group. Your friend would still need to bother himself to double
> click on it.
>
>>
>>
>> Umm .. this is likely to be way down in a list of everything the user has
>> ever installed. There's no easy way to get to it (in Windows) other than
>> Start then All Programs and keep scrolling down until you find a
>> highlighted thing that has the right name/brand mark. Since this does not
>> work well for most applications, people (OK, me, for a start) rarely use
>> that start menu list unless truely lost. That list, for me, has 120-140
>> items and many of those have sub-menus.
>>
>> I'm happy with an icon on the desktop .. I can easily delete it, or (more
>> usually) move it to a folder on my desktop where I'll be able to find it
>> easily again.
>>
>
That's good, as I first said, I'm not saying we shouldn't add a desktop
icon. But, I'm still not sure what the icon should point to?
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Mark Miesfeld
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