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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Desktop being $HOME
From:       Alan Chandler <alan () chandlerfamily ! org ! uk>
Date:       2002-12-03 0:37:51
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On Monday 02 December 2002 6:25 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 01 December 2002 04:08, Gav Wood wrote:
> > > look them up, how? in the file manager, which defaults to $HOME? or by
> > > a file dialog which also defaults to $HOME?
> >
> > or by the most obvious place - the place right under your nose. the
> > easiest to see place. the place that your screen defaults to showing when
> > you log in.
> >
> > that place? the desktop.
>
> i almost never see my desktop. why? because i use applications all the
> time. like web browsers and word processors and email apps. they obscure
> the desktop. so it isn't the most obvious and easiest to get to place once
> you actually start working.

(A lot) earlier in this thread I was promoting setting the Desktop has home.  
So I decided to try it.  Almost straight away I realised my my problem - I 
could not see the desktop because of the applications.

What I do have that I can get at immediately is the panel (its set to autohide 
with a one second delay).  On there I have the Quick Browser with the kfm 
icon to point to my home directory (this shows a filing cabinet which stikes 
me as a very clear steer to a new user rather than the "home" icon),  a quick 
browser with the floppy Icon (which points to ~/.kde/Devices which in turn 
holds the icons which mount physical devices), and the Trash Icon (which I 
have moved to ~/.kde/Trash).  I have also set the desktop to be 
~/.kde/Desktop - so its empty and not visible within the home area.




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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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