Re: Recommended way to display the desktop by default?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 16:28 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a recommended way to make nautilus-3 handle the desktop by
> default in a desktop environment that a distribution can use? Seems the
> recommended way for users is to the use gnome-tweak-tools which would
> write an autostart in the .local directory. Is there any reason to not
> ship one of those by default with nautilus with a conditional start on
> the gsettings key for displaying the desktop icons?

I don't think there is any particular reason not to do that. Its just
not happened because we're not very focused on desktop support since its
off by default. Would be cool if someone could look at this.