From kde-core-devel  Mon May 22 14:34:41 2006
From: Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 14:34:41 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Concluding the discussion about splitting kdebase
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On Friday 19 May 2006 18:18, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 18 May 2006 15:31, S=E9bastien Lao=FBt wrote:
> > But today I saved a mail attachment from KMail to the desktop, because I
> > needed it temporarily.
> > Right click -> "Save as..." -> "Desktop" shortcut
>
> this is something i've been see-sawing back and forth on for some time. i=
'm
> really tempted to say that this is a very broken way of working that shou=
ld
> be actively discouraged.
>
> why do people do this? so they can quickly get to that file at a later
> time. but not -too- much later probably otherwise you end up with 100s of
> icons on your desktop that are random files.

A friend of mine is almost exclusively using the desktop to work with files.
He has files arranged in project folders to keep the desktop quite empty an=
d=20
he says that having limited screen space forces him to reorganize the files=
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once in a while, which he feels is a positive aspect.

I guess it would be ok if there were some kind of Plasma view/plugin that=20
allowed this instead of being the main interaction concept, but I am quite=
=20
certain he wouldn't like his favorite computer interaction method being tak=
en=20
away.

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org

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