Possibility of changing "desktop" name is harmful

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 13 July 2006 14:30, Iñaki wrote:
> > and annoy those people who do use it and find it useful.
>
> Yes, but IMHO now it is more annoyed for common users than it could be if
> the option dissapear for users who use it.
>
> Anyway you are right, deleting options shouldn't be the way.

especially since those options came for a reason =/

> > this is the sort of thing that should be sorted out at freedesktop.org,
> > imho. also note that kde4 will have the option (and it may well even ship
> > with it on by default) to not use an actual folder for your desktop
> > contents since that's really a pretty crappy idea in this day and age of
> > virtual folders, task oriented software, etc...
>
> It sounds really interesting  ;)
>
> But in this day and age of virtual folders, task oriented software, etc...
> Gtk apps still allow the same possibilities of Windows 95 (no ioslaves, no
> embedded parts... nothing), so I hope that this great new concept of a
> modern "desktop" would be "approved" in Freedesktop.org in order to "force"
> Gtk apps to support it. If not, what will occur when the user downloads a
> file with Firefox? is there any solution planed for that in KDE4?

you can still save things to directories on disk and display folder contents 
on the desktop ... and there will be a "legacy" mode that simply displays the 
contents of a folder on the desktop. ugh.

for the firefox example, there's no reason one couldn't show a replica of the 
ff download dialog right on the desktop, completely masking the nasty 
filesystem details.

> PD: Is there any place about that desktop concept in KDE4 you speak about?
> is it related to "Plasma"? I'd like to read about it ;)

yeah, as if there hasn't been enough hype about plasma already. i'm -trying- 
to keep at least some of the ideas calm and quiet until we start releasing 
previews of the software. =)

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