Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Suetterlin said the following on 02/22/2010 05:59 AM:
> > In the end, its your choice whether to use an entire folder view
> > activity, many folder view applets, or do like I have done and dispense
> > with desktop icons altogether. Who needs desktop icons when I have quick
> > launch buttons on my panel and super-fast file search and application
> > launching from krunner?
>
> Actually this possibility to live without Icons is the reason I now most
> likely will stay with KDE.  I never used Windows, was using a well-configured
> fvwm for now 14 years and every time I looked at KDE (or GNOME, for that
> matter) it gave me the creeps as I felt more caged in than given ease of use. 
>  

Mr Rankin wrote back in 10/22/2009 about the 'quicklaunch' applet.
He illustrated
 http://www.3111skyline.com/download/dt/kde4/quicklaunch/quicklaunch.jpg
and for a while I ran with that in my toolbar.  As he says, you clear
all the programs out of the toolbar, but you also clear them out of the
desktop.

GREAT!

I went further.  I created another panel on the right with just the
'quicklaunch' with autohide.  I have the 25 programs I most often use
there.  Faster, easier, more focused than the regular menu.

As Peter says, it get away from the Microsoft brainwashing and is really
liberating.

And you know what?  I have that applet which shows my Desktop folder.
But I never go there.  I cold get rid of it, and the Desktop folder,
with no effect on what I do.

Actually stuff ends up in my home folder more often than the Desktop
folder.   There's a moral there somewhere.




Perhaps someone can suggest an 'quicklaunch' for folders.

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Then they write letters to the board demanding that the schools do
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