Re: Major feature that is missing in gnome

[Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com>]

On 6 Jan 2003, Alex Duggan wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 20:03, Michael Hoffman wrote:
> > I am writing because I would really like to switch fro kde to gnome,
> > however there are 2 major features missing in gnome that i would like to
> > suggest.  
> 
> > 1. a desktop button for the tool bar (like in kde it will
> > allow you to send all apps to the background and show the desktop when
> > you click on it again you get all your apps back in the forground just
> > as they were. 
> 
> There is a show desktop button that you can put on your panel that is in
> currently in 2.1.x and will be part of GNOME 2.2
> 
> > 2. allow desktops to have seperate images for each desktop
> > if these features are already included please tell me how to get to them
> > please.
> 
> This is currently not possible, but has been discussed in the past.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48004

Was marked as WONTFIX.

I think the bug should be reopened with a low priority, personally.
I don't think this is a crack feature.  

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