Linux, what are our objectives?

[lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org (Don Levey)]

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Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:37:26AM -0500, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> They got rid of desktop icons ? more or less. They are no longer files or
>> directories in your desktop folder, but something different. Does it
>> bother anyone that they did this? One of the things I like about the
>> historical UNIX model is that things that seem similar, are similar. The
>> notion that icons on the desktop are different than icons on the file
>> browser troubles me. It seems like a divergence from a coherent model to a
>> more complicated and confusing one.
> 
> I do away with all desktop icons completely on my machines.
> Desktop real-estate is at a premium (he says, looking at a
> 1680x1050 display next to a 2048x1536 display) and not to be
> wasted on application launchers.
> 

Please forgive the ignorance, but what then do you put on your desktop
real estate?  I keep a monitor (gkrellm) on there, but apart from
application launchers that's about it.

 -Don

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