3.2 review on osnews

[Benjamin Reed]

Jason Keirstead wrote:

> On January 15, 2004 09:10 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> 
>>Wouldn't even require a string change :) and would be *really* an
>>improvement (though I hardly can notice any reason why you wouldn't want to
>>have icons on your desktop at all...)
>>
> 
> 
> Lots of people dont like icons on their desktop (like me :). To me, they serve absolutely
> no usefull purpose and just make everything ugly.

Also, because of the way the "icons on desktop" thing is implemented, 
it's important to turn them off if you're using a rootless X server 
(like on OSX and, I presume, on the Windows rootless server as well)

Otherwise you have a big X windows pretending to be the root window 
covering up your "real" desktop.

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