Re: [Usability] Launchers? [Was: logout dialog redux]

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

I'm *NOT* in favour of applications adding themselves to the desktop
however. Users are always hesitant to throw away a change an application
made and I see many Windows users who's desktops are pretty much
useless. About all they click is "My Computer" and "Internet Explorer".
The rest is covered with launchers they don't use but feel uncomfortable
deleting because they "might" use them some day. Macintosh users on the
other hand seem to use their desktops for work, and generally have
active documents and such stashed there.

-Seth

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 06:26, Calum Benson wrote:
> Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > What's your take on the launcher-icons-on-desktop thing, by the way?
> > (Launchers as opposed to real files.)
> 
> I'm pretty much in favour.  There's only so many launchers you can put
> on a panel, plus you can lay them out with more freedom on the desktop,
> so you can have a lot more of them but still find them just as quickly. 
> That's actually how I use the desktop on my Mac (and my Windows box,
> when I had one)-- I don't have any documents on it all, only application
> launchers.
> 
> On the other hand, when I'm using GNOME on my Solaris box, my screen is
> so full that I can't see the bloody desktop anyway, so I have nothing on
> it at all :o)
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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