Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > > Hi all. I thought up something the other day and was trying to figure it > > out. Currently in gnome gmc and the desktop appear to be the same > > program (ie if you want desktop icons, gmc has to be running, even > > though you have no windows open. Also, every time gmc crashes (which is > > fairly often) all the desktop icons disappear and are then recreated > > when gmc respawns). Why is this? Wouldn't it be a better idea to have a > > sepereate, small program to manage the desktop icons and have it run gmc > > when someone clicks on "Home Directory" or something similar? > > If MC crashes, it is a bug. Please tell us how to reproduce it so > that we can fix it. > > It may be a good idea to do the separation you propose. Right now the > file manager is being rewritten/cleaned up so that we can have a > better organization. > I don't think this is a good idea, actualy I think it is a bad one. The desktop should, and even thougth it resides in the same app (gmc) it does not now, act exactly as a folder act. And for me itīs a bad idea to have two programs doing basicly the same thing. -- "You take the red pill and you stay in wonderland, and I'll show you how deep the rabit hole goes", Morpheus. []'s Victor Bogado da Silva Lins
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