well just to let you people know...I am designing a desktop manager for Linux...but am providing only for the desktop and the panel and maybe the file manager...rest will all be used by whatever KDE is providing...am a single person doing it....can't create the whole environment. Monitoring the discussion you people are having gives me ideas as to what i need not include in my system!
On 4/13/06, Sam Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:38:50PM +1000, Benjamin Rich wrote: > > Following my posts about displaying all files in /home/user on the > > desktop, I decided you're all right, and I should just make my own > > desktop GUI if I want this feature included. > > I'm not sure if anyone suggested this or not as I didn't read the > discussion, > but you could try: > > cd > ln -s Desktop . > > That would make your "Desktop" directory a symlink to your home directory. > The only problem being that it would show "Desktop" in it still which is a > bit > ugly. Maybe you could move that icon off the side of the screen :) > > I'd like to discuss ideas about alternative desktop / GUI interfaces. > (not on the list, I guess) > > FWIW I feel that RISC OS on the old Acorns is by far the best GUI I've ever > used. I still pine for it! What those boxes could (and still can) do with > 4MB RAM an 8 or 30 MHz ARM chip and a 40Mb HDD is just phenomenal. > > I think I'd like to try a GUI system with more of a feel of "entering" and > "leaving" things, as if rather than icons/windows we have boxes that can be > opened and entered, that sort of thing... and absolutely no eye candy nor > persistent menus/toolbars/icons/etc! > > > Sam > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
