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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Wanting option to hide icons
From:       Roland Riegel <roland.riegel.maillist () gmx ! de>
Date:       2002-02-17 16:43:18
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Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2002 17:36 schrieb George Mitchell:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a customer who very much likes KDE, but has a fetish about having
> an 'iconless' desktop.  He has found a way to do it under Windows and
> would like to be able to do it with KDE.  I think I have a simple kludge
> that will work and can be scripted.  It would mv all Icon files in the
> Desktop directory to hidden status by prepending with dot.  I would have
> to find a way to restore the Trash before logout so that it wouldn't
> keep being recreated.
>
> HOWEVER, I thought I would bring it up here as I think it could be an
> interesting option on the right mouse desktop menu as 'Hide Desktop
> Icons'/'Reveal Desktop Icons' toggle.  Any thoughts on this?  Sort of
> extended theming I suppose.
>
> George Mitchell
> ghmitch@neteze.com

Hi,

Using KDE 3.0 beta this is already possible with the Control Center somewhere 
at "Look & Feel" | "Desktop".

On KDE 2.x you can delete /path-to-kde/share/autostart/kdesktop.desktop to 
prevent the desktop from being started.

Roland

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