Re: Menubar (and Empty Default Desktop) Proposals for GNOME 2.10

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> Desktop being prefilled with useful stuff is most important when
> starting, when you don't have any apps to obscure it yet, and even more
> so when you don't have your environment customised yet, which is by
> definition novice user's situation. 

It's very true. A desktop with icons does provide a starting point for 
users. Microsoft's rationale for this is probably that they actually 
have a button labeled "start". But it was still nice to have three or 
four icons on the desktop as before.

It also tells people that their desktop is a place where they can put 
things. If there's nothing there to begin with, it's not made clear up 
front.

Why would anyone want to remove things from the desktop?

--Pat