Re: Nautilus and Background control

[Beny Spensieri Jr <benyjr softhome net>]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 06:09, Alexander Larsson wrote: 
> > Is there any way to make Nautilus give up control of the background yet
> > still have it just put the files on the desktop (and not steal the mouse
> > clicks)?
> 
> No. You can however disable the desktop. Then E will work, but you won't
> get any desktop icons.

Crap.  I was hoping for a middle of the road option at least.  Oh well.

> > I'm sure that this has been discussed to death.  I tried searching the
> > mailing list archive, but most of these discussions were from 2001 and
> > I'm sure that Nautilus has made some significant changes since then.
> 
> There has been all sorts of changes since then, however this is a
> fundamental issue in how the desktop is implemented, and it will not
> change.

This "I control all the desktop or none at all" way of operating seems a
bit childish to me, but then I'm new to this mailing list and haven't
seen the past arguments in favour of it.

Thanks for your response.

Beny