Re: Permanently removing all desktop icons under gnome 2.0

[Gnome User <gnome yadda-yadda-yadda org>]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:27:20PM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 14:10, Gnome User wrote:
> 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Using sawmill is indeed a bit better, although still not ideal.
> > 
> > Is there no way to just tell Gnome to get rid of all of those icons
> > and still have its other desktop functionality enabled?
> > 
> > Is my only option to put a "/bin/rm -f ~/.gnome-desktop/*" in my
> > .profile, after all?
> 
> Well, I'd tend to consider putting an "rm" in a script as being rather
> "iffy" at best anyways...but if you've reconfigured nautilus to NOT draw
> the desktop, AND you were using Sawfish as the wm, you shouldn't have
> any further worries...

Well, I agree about 'rm'.  But I get other nice functionality with
Gnome's desktop enabled: for example, I can access some Gnome menus
from the desktop.

So I guess that I have to make a tradeoff: if I want the Gnome
desktop functionality, I need to see those icons; and if I don't
want to see those icons, I can use sawfish but not get to Gnome's
menus from the desktop.

That's not a horrible choice to have to make ... but I want to have
my cake and eat it too. :)


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