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

[Aaron J.Seigo]

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------- Additional Comments From aseigo kde org  2008-01-23 17:43 -------
> copied or moved folders to the desktop

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.

> is this deprecated by freedesktop.org, LSB, or who?

neither (nor are either particularly relevant here =). it's deprecated by plasma. why? it is a idea from an age when we would stick floppy disks into computers that had little to no internal mass storage. today it's just a really, really stupid idea that ceased being relevant years ago.