On 07/04/2011 18:24, Sankar P wrote:
(1) I like to have a totally clean workspace/desktop and therefore put all the icons for the apps. I use on the top/bottom panels. In 11.4 I have done this for all the apps, I normally run except that the icons for TRASH and the HOME directory which cannot be deleted/moved to trash - the option is greyed out on the drop down menu. How does one get rid of these icons so as to have a totally clean workspace/desktop? IIUC, you are looking for gnome3, right? sorry to break the news: There are no panels. I suggest you give the existing live images a try to see how much you like it.
As for gnome2, as you currently run and the question on how to remove TRASH and HOME, this should be possible in gconf-editor in the location: /apps/nautilus/desktop There are two booleans: home-icon_visible and trash_icon_visible. Switch them to FALSE (remove the tick) and the icons will disappear.
In GNOME 3, the icons will not show by default.
"Not show by default" meaning that there is a way to make them operative?
In GNOME 2, playing with gconf is one way and another shortcut is:
http://psankar.blogspot.com/2011/01/showhide-files-and-icons-in-gnome.html
Thanks for this - I'll go and look at this blog. One of the most annoying "bugs" with gnome (all distros it would appear) is that the date format displayed in the clock applet is always in the american format, month/date/year, and not what is used by the majority of the rest of the world: day/month/year; and the date format is supposed to be displayed according to your locale - but gnome simply refuses to do this and one then has to go and fiddle in the gconf-editor to reset the clock applet :-( . BC -- "I believe what I am programmed to believe." A robot in Futuruma -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org