--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 10:12 AM
On Monday 20 October 2008 23:50, Linuxguy123 wrote:
Why can't we have files and icons on the desktop,
ala KDE3.x ?
You can. Use folder-view widget, and point it to the
Desktop folder under your
home directory.
However...
It could be argued that files and icons do not belong on
the desktop, but
rather in home directory. It could also be argued that one
should use a file
manager rather then desktop manager to manipulate files,
while the desktop
manager should be better suited to manipulate the desktop.
It could further
be argued that files and icons were already present on the
desktop up to KDE
3.5 and that this was demonstrated to be a Bad Habbit,
since the desktop
usually becomes cluttered beyond any usability after some
time. Finally, it
could be argued that using plasmoids on the desktop rather
than keeping icons
on it enhances its usability.
I know that forcing people to change their habbits is very
painful in general,
invites a horrific amount of bitching and moaning, but ---
as for example
with taking bitter-tasting medications, learning math in
school, using
selinux --- it is for their own good.
I would suggest that you put some effort in getting
yourself disciplined in
having a directory hierarchy under your home dir to put
files, and put
plasmoids/widgets on the desktop.
OTOH, if you really really really absolutely need files and
icons on the
desktop, use folder-view widget. After a while you might
get interested in
having two or more folder-view widgets on the desktop
showing the contents of
several different directories, and then you might apreciate
the hard-work of
the KDE4 developers who made such a thing possible. In KDE
3.5 you are
limited to just one folder, just like for ex. in Windows
you are limited to
just one desktop. Once you find out about the Better Way,
you'll never look
back... ;-)
HTH, :-)
Marko
--
It could also be argued that this philosophy of yours is in direct
conflict with the whole spirit and intent of the Linux environment
in the first place.
Linux and it's environments were created to give users the freedom
to use and configure their desktops any way they like.
To tell me that I should not lose abilities that I once had and
used for the sake of some new dogma that someone else believes in
is like chalk scrapping against a blackboard.
If I want to clutter my desktop with files and folders,
that is my business not some developers.
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