The future (or lack thereof) of Desktop Icons (Was: [Bug 156428] dragging to desktop creates a link without notifying user)

[Christopher Blauvelt]

There seems to be a lot of ideas floating around out there on what the
future of Icons on the Desktop is going to be.  I've heard the following:
- Have the alignment algorithms include all applets.  This is now easily
done with the new alignment algorithms which allow icons of any size.
- Have a folder view applet.  I'm not exactly sure what this is supposed to
do.  What features are implied by such an applet.
- Adding device icons to the desktop.  I would like to see a device
dependant applet for different devices.  ie. A blank CD-R will open up a
"folder view" applet which allow files to be dropped and when you're done
press the burn button.
- The ability to minimize Applets.  This could be done with a button on the
applet handle.  The resulting icon could be changed dynamically by the
applet depending on conditions.  Examples are the weather applet could
change the icon depending on updated weather conditions, etc
- Iconify applets when the view is zoomed out.

What other ideas or plans are out there?  My intent here is to get a general
plan so that we can tell people who file bugs like this what the roadmap
looks like.

Chris
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