Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: > On Apr 9, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: >> I always thought that having a desktop full of icons was a measure of >> status in the Windows world. Most Windows systems I see are full of >> 'em. I wonder how many people know that they can delete them?
> As developers, I hope none of you *ever* do this. (See how I pulled > this back to [NF]! <g>) On Mac, by default, downloads go to the desktop. This is a great idea IMO because the downloads to to a place normal people can find easily. However, I hardly ever look at my Mac desktop. I almost never look at the Dock even. I know the app I want to start so I'll press Cmd+Space to open Spotlight, and I'll start typing the app name and press Enter. That app will open. If I happen to not know what app I want to start, I'll open Finder and browse the Applications folder. So the upshot is that my desktop gets pretty cluttered with downloaded files. No biggie though, since everything there is temporary in nature: rm -rf ~/Desktop/* My Linux desktop remains very clean (no icons), however I have the clutter I mentioned before in my home folder (with the same remedy). My Windows desktop is semi-cluttered, but its worse than the others because there are actual shortcuts there that I've put there on purpose, so I can't just delete everything there. Windows is the only OS where I feel like the desktop is necessary. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
