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. -- Parents complain that "kids don't do anything for themselves any more." Then they write letters to the board demanding that the schools do something about it. -- Arnold Lapiner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org