Re: Major change in desktop handling

[MArk Finlay <sisob eircom net>]

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 19:24, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I just checked in a large change to the Nautilus desktop handling that
> I've been working on for a while. Its not totally finished yet, but it
> seems to work well enough to check in.

Excellent!

> * Currently we don't have a start-here link on the new desktop. Should
> we add one? I'm not totally sold on the start-here icon, but its sort of
> useful (although badly named), and with the new system its much easier
> to enable/disable it if you don't want it.

Please-god no. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83428
Start-here needs to be removed, and applications:// integrated better
with gnome-panel.

> 
> * KDE also uses ~/Desktop, and they put some special files in there. We
> need to examine how these interact with Nautilus and how we can avoid
> confusing the user with these files.

Yeah, kde launchers and device files look nasty in nautilus...

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