Re: From KDE to GNOME. Experiences, suggestions and comments



On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 20:54 -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> Janne Ojaniemi wrote:
> My own personal Gnome wishlist would include the ability to have more 
> control over what Nautilus displays on the desktop.  I like that 
> Nautilus displays a desktop icon when something is mounted or 
> automounted -- for me, it serves as a handy visual reminder that, "oh 
> yeah, I still have that CD in the drive."  But I don't like the other 
> icons -- "Computer" I can live with, maybe even my home folder icon.  
> However, I also have three partitions mounted at boot on which I keep a 
> lot of things I want shared between operating systems.  Nautilus 
> displays an icon for each of these partitions, which just makes my 
> (otherwise clean) desktop look cluttered to me.  I would love for these 
> icons not to be displayed, but I think that currently the only way to do 
> that is to disable icons altogether.  If I'm mistaken, I hope someone 
> will tell me how to do it.

Run the gconf-editor and fiddle with the settings
in /apps/nautilus/desktop and /system/storage

Hopefully you'll find some combination of settings there that suit your
desire. I think the options there have changed from version to version,
so good luck.

mike

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