On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 17:04 +0100, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: > * even with many applications opened, the desktop is just one > click (or one keystroke) away from you (Ctrl+Alt+D or the "Show > Desktop" applet). > * it's a very big space to save things. If we're going to have > something like a file stack in gnome-shell, we should make it > sure it has the right amount of space. [...]
For what it's worth, I need to interject here. I know many people (myself included) who turn desktop icons off, not because I keep many windows open all the time (it's easy to access desktop as Cosimo wrote), but because I hate to look at the messy, unevenly shaped, partially overlapping icons, sometimes with large gaps between them. More than, say, 5 or 6 icons on the desktop simply demand my attention; they scream: "Drag us around! Make us look neat!" Then I have to keep doing that for every new couple of icons that land on the desktop. I am not against the idea of desktop icons -- just saying that the current desktop icon layout scheme imposes a large "aesthetic tax" on some people, growing proportionally with the number of icons and how often they are added/removed. Hence I am looking forward to stacks as proposed here. Zoran -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
