Re: [orca-list] Installing gnome and switching from unity to gnome3 in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04?

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Krishnakant,
That's because Gnome 3.x does not allow you to create launchers on your 
desktop. It doesn't work in Gnome shell, Gnome Classic, and I don't 
believe Gnome Fallback either. As I've said on list earlier it looks 
like the only use for the desktop as of Gnome 3.x is for sighted users 
to display their desktop background images and nothing more.

Of course,in the wider scheme of things that is becoming the norm. 
Windows 8, for example, doesn't allow people to place icons directly on 
the desktop either. Instead one has to pin them to the taskbar which is 
kind of the same concept of adding a launcher to the launcher toolbar in 
Unity. So in short it looks like no matter what OS or desktop we as 
blind users want to use the desktop is no longer useful to us for adding 
launchers and icons we frequently use.

Cheers!


On 4/28/2012 12:50 AM, Krishnakant mane wrote:
>   Thomas,
> Besides the problem you and dave mentioned, I can't find a way to create desktop shortcuts in gnome classic.
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.