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Re: just two features !
by Anon on Wednesday 19/Mar/2008, @09:24

But why are we moving away from the well-established "Desktop" concept? I would like to vote for having a desktop that works as I expect a desktop to work like on any other OS

Surely it's a matter of habit, but I really dislike the way the desktop is handled by KDE4 currently, and I guess I'm not the only one.

Why was it decided that the "old" desktop paradigm is deprecated? Just curious.

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Re: just two features !
by jospoortvliet on Wednesday 19/Mar/2008, @11:28

you can look on for example Aaron's blog for answers to that question, but a hint: the desktop with icons was developed for 180K floppydrives with just a few files. We now use filemanagers to manage thousands of files. Surely the desktop can be used better, as it's original use (showing all files and/or applications you have) isn't there anymore?

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Re: just two features !
by Martin Fitzpatrick on Wednesday 19/Mar/2008, @11:48

What I was getting at was intended to maintain the useful functionality of the Desktop: that is quick and easy access to useful/relevant files.

I've not used the current KDE4 desktop yet so I can't really comment but from what I understand it handles individual files as plasma applets?

What I would like to see is plasmas for known groups of files "Recent Downloads" "Recently Opened"

Ideally I would like a Task-Orientated desktop where it was possible to group a bunch of files, bookmarks, etc. in a single package so when I want to do some of "X" I just open the "X" package and bam. Everything is back where I left it... a lot of apps in KDE provide similar functions now in Sessions but a wholly coordinated/integrated system would be neat.

You could then ship with some default "Tasks" to start people off.

But anyway, I've wandered a mile off topic. Short answer: I agree.

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