https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450326
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> ---
[Found in last-24-hour search while looking for something else. CCing and
commenting as I find it interesting.]
Count me as one of the "hate desktop icons" users.
Since the location's adjustable I'm not against it in general but some random
thoughts as a live-git tester/user both pro and con. Evaluate their worth and
proceed accordingly. =:^)
* FWIW I use the "Desktop" dir as a "working" dir dumping ground for current
downloads and (in a subdir) whatever else I might be working on, because it's
not just icons on the desktop (which I don't want) but also a default central
"Place", easily accessible from many apps including non-kde apps that don't
necessarily have the "Places" flexibility that kde/plasma does. So while I
(and others in the "hate" group) could of course simply point the plasma
desktop to some other empty dir, the implications of desktop containment
removal /are/ rather larger than comment #0 implied.
* Of course this will trigger a bunch of hubbub in the community, likely a
bunch of extra filed bugs, etc. It /will/ be seen (at best) by those affected
as "change for change sake." Is it worth it? (It may be, I'm not the one to
say, but the question should be considered given the predicted community view.)
* Certainly eliminating the choice (since the location can be pointed at an
empty dir in any case) will simplify things, changing the "plasma lost its
settings again and I gotta reset from defaults" procedure from "switch to
desktop containment before doing anything else or you'll lose the other
changes", to "at your leasure, re-point the location to an empty dir", as well
as the one-less-config-option simplification. That's a positive, but arguably
less of one for me and others like me, because the required customization step
will be changed, not eliminated.
* Note that (presumably) the other shells don't have as high a usage as
plasma-desktop. In particular, I suspect it's likely that most of your
"live-git" (me) and beta-tester users are using the desktop shell. Thus, if
the desktop containment is retained only for those other shells the highest
cost (from the CI perspective at least) is likely to be in not catching any
desktop-containment-specific bugs as quickly, potentially resulting in a worse
experience for release users of the other shells. Given that the folder
containment includes all the functionality anyway that may not be seen to be an
issue, but if it is, it may be that the desktop containment needs either kept
or dumped in its entirety, including for the other shells. Whether it's useful
enough there to actually be required is something I can't evaluate, but much of
the code simplification benefit will only occur if it's dumped entirely, and
given the above cost factors of losing it, it may simply not be worth it to do
part way.
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