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Re: Dramatic vision of reinventing the desktop
by Joe Kowalski on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @10:09

I would like to see a little containment applet to hold and sort all the icons for the files in ~/Desktop/. As is, the icons get spread out all over the place. A containment applet could provide quick access to files and apps, keep them sorted, and keep them from sprawling all over the desktop.

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Re: Dramatic vision of reinventing the desktop
by Anon on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @10:26

Yep - I've been wanting this for years, and I especially would like to be able to reserve a separate area for removable devices. Thankfully, this should all be relatively easy within the Plasma framework!

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Re: Dramatic vision of reinventing the desktop
by ptr on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @12:05

thing is you wont be able to place new items on desktop so easy....

you need to go to your home folder... click Desktop... and then make a new file or folder.

dont like this 'feature' personally.

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Re: Dramatic vision of reinventing the desktop
by Stefan on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @12:25

I'm happy icons are in Plasma at all. From what I can consider, Plasma is the first desktop to allow one to rotate the icons. If only my KWin would work (bug 154637)...

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Re: Dramatic vision of reinventing the desktop
by Joe Kowalski on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @18:48

The Answer for this is actually simple. When QT 4.4 is out, load the dolphin file view kpart (the same that is now being used in konquerors file view) into the containment as a widget on canvas. Now the file icons with this won't be plasma icons, but they will be fully manageable as files.

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Re: Dramatic vision of reinventing the desktop
by hias on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @14:52

It would be nice if the folders on the desktops are these containments. Imagine, you drag&drop a folder to your desktop and what you see is the folder icon. So far nothing new, but when you resize the icon it turns into the containment and shows all the items inside the folder.

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Re: Dramatic vision of reinventing the desktop
by jos poortvliet on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @08:32

Would be easily possible with plasma ;-)

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Re: Dramatic vision of reinventing the desktop
by Aaron J. Seigo on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @15:03

> I would like to see a little containment applet to hold and sort all the
> icons for the files in ~/Desktop/

that's already on my list for 4.1 =)

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