On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:58 +0100, Giacomo Bordiga wrote: > 2009/12/4 Зоран Рилак <zoran.ri...@gmail.com> > 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. > > This [1] is a mockup I made 1 year and half ago. I'm not sure if it > can still be interesting/useful in the next gnome evolution. Still to > me is a step forward to the current desktop icon management. > > In addition to Cosimo's points i think the desktop is also often used > as a "buffer" for temporary file operation, works in progress or not > yet categorized files. > > [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/7449...@n06/2329133852/
I don't think enforcing a layout like this on the desktop is a good idea. I guess it might be nice to have some form of better arrangement when you "Clean up by name", but having a fixed layout like that gives you less space for your own files and forces the use of the desktop as more of a place to launch other locations. The current main usecase for the desktop is being a location where the user works on his current set of active files, although that may change with gnome-shell as per this discussion. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc al...@redhat.com alexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a lonely misogynist barbarian trapped in a world he never made. She's a virginal hypochondriac snake charmer who can talk to animals. They fight crime! -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list