Re: [Usability]Why Desktop Icons?

[Mikael G Claesson <cs131fak ieng9 ucsd edu>]

It's still an ugly hack.

I remember the Amiga Workbench let you have your desktop in a proper
window (resizable with a dragbar etc) instead of on the screen background.
That would be a solution I could be happy with. It wouldn't be much
different from just having a window with your home directory, except those
little vendor-supplied icons (and the trashcan) would have somewhere
special to go.

/M

On 21 Mar 2002, Seth Nickell wrote:

> The menubar panel applet has this too.
>
> -Seth
>
> On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 11:53, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 14:34, Mikael G Claesson wrote:
> > > One crazy idea I had was a key combination that you could hold down to
> > > make all windows go away temporarily (until you release the keys) so that
> > > you can reach the desktop icons immediately. But yeah, that would be an
> > > ugly hack. Although I'd prefer it to the current situation.
> >
> > On KDE they have a toggle button in the panel that you can use to
> > temporarily hide all the windows.  It comes really handy, and Windows
> > has something like that too.
> >
> > --
> > Ettore
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