Re: [PATCH] Double-clicking on desktop background brings desktop up-front

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 29 Jul 2008, at 17:08, Calum Benson wrote:

> On 18 Jul 2008, at 23:28, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
>
> > Nelson Benítez León schreef:
> > > Hi, I've implemented a feature I wanted to have in nautilus, that is
> > > double-clicking on the Desktop background will show desktop  
> > > (minimise all
> > > opened windows).
> >
> > * hears a thousand helpdesk phones ringing... *
>
> Heh.  Perhaps a still-useful, but less surprising approach would be  
> to make double-clicking the desktop == open ~/Desktop in a file  
> manager window?

(Okay, so I guess nowadays it wouldn't necessarily be "~/Desktop" that  
you opened, but $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR...)

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