Re: [PATCH] improvement for nautilus desktop

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 14:45, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 14:21, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > I think this is a relevant feature for Nautilus, especially for those of
> > us who like really empty desktops. Also, it goes hand in hand with the
> > keys to hide Home, Computer and Trash.
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to set show_desktop to false?  If you are turning
> off home, computer, trash and mounted folders, there is not much left on
> your desktop...  Unless of course you have "$home as desktop" on, in
> which case you have a full desktop already.
> 

Some users may want to have their own folders (for example "pictures",
"music", etc...) on the desktop, but not "home", "computer", "trash" and
mounted volumes. So, for them, setting "show_desktop" to false is not
equivalent to hiding "home", "computer" etc...

Another case is when people have lots of mounted volumes (in the case of
a web developer having a lot of server to work with, for example), but
don't want to have them on their desktop, but still want to hame the
"home", "trash" and "computer" icons. This is my case.

-- 
Julien Olivier <julo altern org>