Re: Device icons -- suggestion

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 16:00 -0500, Logan Rathbone wrote:
> NOTE:  This is my 2nd time sending this message -- the first time I sent it, it did not get posted to the list, possibly because I'm using Postfix that hasn't been configured securely enough.  Anyway, here's try #2 using my university's SMTP server:
> 
> I noticed as of GNOME 2.6 there has been a new "Computer" icon drawn on the desktop.  When I first saw it, I thought it was a really good idea -- I figured that the device icons would then be confined to the Computer Place, keeping the desktop more organized.
> 
> But, I soon found that all mounted devices wind up, in addition to the Computer Place, directly on the desktop.  I think that sort of defeats the purpose of the Computer place entirely -- what's the point of having it if mounted devices end up on the desktop anyway?
> 
> My suggestion is to keep the Computer Place -- it's great.  But stop mounted devices from ending up on the desktop, and confine them to the Computer Place.

This can be disabled.  Jaap gave details on how to do this.  The reason
for having volumes show up on the desktop is for discoverability. 

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John (J5) Palmieri
Associate Software Engineer
Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
Blog: http://martianrock.com