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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:37:26AM -0500, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org wrote: >> They got rid of desktop icons ? more or less. They are no longer files or >> directories in your desktop folder, but something different. Does it >> bother anyone that they did this? One of the things I like about the >> historical UNIX model is that things that seem similar, are similar. The >> notion that icons on the desktop are different than icons on the file >> browser troubles me. It seems like a divergence from a coherent model to a >> more complicated and confusing one. > > I do away with all desktop icons completely on my machines. > Desktop real-estate is at a premium (he says, looking at a > 1680x1050 display next to a 2048x1536 display) and not to be > wasted on application launchers. > Please forgive the ignorance, but what then do you put on your desktop real estate? I keep a monitor (gkrellm) on there, but apart from application launchers that's about it. -Don -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJIY2yiVR8AmYXiFARApXPAJ9nxSbe9waSuarMD8WsWWruHX9BTgCcC3jm MQh8mTtlPorQ3MAb+pxP32k= =//HF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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