On 3/6/2012 12:34 PM, Insomniac wrote:
On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 08:21 Robert Benjamin wrote:
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Can I give you any more info about what I did to follow your instructions or anything else I can do to get icons on the desktop. Once a program is installed, I can only find it in the launcher at the left, and can't move the icons to the desktop. Thanks. Bob
Hi Bob,
Unfortunately a lot of folks on this list forget what it's like to be new and especially the difficulties with beginning to play with a whole new OS, so they tend to give instructions as if you, the newbie, was born knowing how to edit something with emacs and/or vi (just for grins and giggles, you ought to install those two and try them out once. Talk about PITA editors!).
I don't use Gnome personally, but this works for me in KDE - click on the menu button in the lower-left-hand corner, scroll up to the application/program/item you're wanting to put on the desktop, left-click and *hold* on that item and drag to the desktop *from* the menu. Hopefully that will work for you just as it does me with KDE.
I've no clue why the devs in *both* desktop environments (apparently from what I've read of Gnome users complaining also) decided to 'fix' it so that right-clicking anywhere on the desktop and having it in the context menu (as it used to be in days past) is now gone. It was intuitive, it was fast (and faster) and it was simple (and simpler than now) and just worked. Just shows another old addage that made sense is gone along with some few others - 'Don't fix what ain't broke' and 'KISS-Keep It Simple Stupid' are just a couple. Wow, that last paragraph is really great. I guess if one dev does something different or complicates things the others are bound to follow cause otherwise you may be looked at as falling of the high-tech train, so you do a similar thing. Whatev! Will try the things you do for KDE tomorrow and let you know. Thanks. Bob
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