Re: [Usability]Why Desktop Icons?

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Create a new panel, add to panel->Utility->Menu Bar.

It wasn't ready to replace the foobar for GNOME 2.0. We'll probably try
to use it for GNOME 2.2.

-Seth

On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 09:33, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> Sweet.  How do I turn it on and why isn't it on by default?
> 
> On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 07:51, 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