[Bug 156428] dragging to desktop creates a link without notifying user

[David]

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------- Additional Comments From StormByte gmail com  2008-04-03 16:02 -------
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actually, you moved it to a folder on disk that was being displayed on the desktop layer. "the desktop" is an abstraction, a view .. it isn't a file system itself.

in 4.0 (and likely still in 4.1) we offer a traditional approach of "show icons the $DESKTOP folder as individual icons on the desktop". this is purely as a transitional aide. in 4.1 we'll also be offering a "show icons in $ANYFOLDER as an expandable list/stack of icons" which opens up a lot more possibility in workflow and maintenance.

at some TBD point in the future we will be removing the "scatter icons from a given specially blessed folder on the desktop" misfeature entirely.
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I want to say some things:
1.- I want to expose a real life example: When you are sitting in a chair in front of a table (formerly called Desktop), what do people do with temporal things they get them (papers, notes, pencils, and so on...)? The answer is that 99% of people uses their Desktops for that purpose. Try to find real Desktops (tables) without anything more than just the screen and anything on it...
2.- I've asked some of my friends, and told about KDE 4 new features and things, and they all told me that it should use Desktop for that purpose as always too. And judging this bug comments, there are even more people who needs this too.

The thing I want to say is: OK, it was this was since many years, but complete deprecation of such a essential feature is not a good idea. In that case, I suggest disabling it by default (if it is your intention), but anyways have the possibility to enable it. From my side, I've been working with KDE4 trunk since RC1, and I try to get used not to use Desktop as I always did, and the result is that I need to do more work than before (I meant, downloading files to Desktop, and so on), because I need to open dolphin, search, etc..

To sum up, I don't want to start a discussion here nor offend anyone, only to give my opinion as user.