Re: Desktop context menus and icons should be Gnome intrinsic, not tied to gmc.

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 12:45:59AM +0100 +++
James Green e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> In message <19990402003137.C21462@audrey>, Matthias Warkus <mawarkus@t-
> online.de> writes
> >+++ Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 09:28:32PM +0100 +++
> >James Green e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> >[desktop icons]
> >> The average end user isn't going to care; I just don't want to have to
> >> run additional apps on top of gnome to get the desktop icons, something
> >> I consider paramount to getting Windows users over to Linux desktops.
> >
> >...which is not the #1 reason why Gnome exists. Gnome is not only for
> >Linux, and Gnome is not only for converted Windows users.
> 
> I didn't say it was.

Yes, you didn't. Excuse me if I spew a lot of those reminders - I'm
hanging out a lot on comp.os.linux.advocacy... ;)
   
> >[desktop icons NOT part of gmc]
> >> P.S. I agree to the functionality suggested in the subject header, and
> >> IMO it should be in Gnome.
> >
> >The way desktop icons are handled by gmc at the moment already looks
> >quite satisfactory to me. One may discuss whether it's logical to have
> >that functionality in the file manager - I for one think it's OK,
> >after all, they're files, aren't they? I can live with the way it's
> >done at the moment.
> 
> I just don't want to have to run gmc all the time to get desktop icons.

Ah... so it's a question of resource consumption. Of course. That's a
reason.

mawa
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