Re: Global Desktop Items: A proposal

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 08:50 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 02:14 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am working on enhancing some of the "deployment friendly" stuff in
> > GNOME as a part of my Google SoC, and one of the things I am working
> > on is support for predefined global items on the desktop. To make my
> > current goal clearer, here's a sample use case (stolen shamelessly
> > from a doc by my mentor, Federico Mena Quintero).
> 
> I'm very busy this week, so I don't have much time for mail. However,
> I'd just like to point out that we have historically avoided adding
> these sorts of things, because that sort of changes the usecase of the
> desktop. The idea of the gnome desktop is more like the mac desktop than
> the windows desktop. Its a work area for the users files, where files
> are stored as they are being worked on, and then filed away or deleted
> as needed. 
> 
> The desktop is an important user folder, and should be 100% controlled
> by the user. It is not just a place for launchers of applications, those
> are generally put on the panel.
> 
> Another thing I worry about is if we start letting applications install
> things on users desktop we'll soon turn into the crap that is a standard
> windows desktop where its full of logos for various vendors. Windows
> even had to implement some form of checker that pops up a dialog and
> asks you if you want to delete unused launchers from the desktop.
> 
> In your usecase, why can't the launchers be put on the panel instead? I
> didn't see any rationale fo that. And the URIs could also be put in the
> browser bookmarks.

>From what i have heard from customers/admins :
The desktop icon is in your face, and panel icons are easy to miss.


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