Use "desktop" in a disambiguous way: get rid of the desktop folder

[Seth Hikari]

I too use plasmoid to display my folders but I also use it to display  
the desktop folder. It is a lot less cluttered to display the few  
things I keep on the desktop folder the my home folder or any other.  
Just like in other OSs it is really just a folder. I think it is  
important for users and programs that it stays that way because it is  
a special folder. So unless it is removed in some way in other OSs we  
should keep it the same. Just my take on it.

Sent from my iPod Touch

On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Andrea Canidio <acanidio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
>
> thanks to the folder view plasmoid, now the Desktop folder does not  
> need to be
> on the desktop anymore: one could have the Home directory or the  
> directory
> corresponding to the project he is working on in that period.
>
> Therefore thinks like "show the Desktop" become ambiguous: a user  
> may expect
> Dolphin to open and show the desktop folder. There are several other  
> cases
> where I think this is an issue, like "save to Desktop": meaning, in  
> the folder
> that I have currently on the Desktop or in my Desktop folder?
>
> It seems to me that in Kde4 the Desktop folder is just a regular  
> folder. So to
> avoid confusion, perhaps we should eliminate it, or call it  
> something else.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Andrea
>
>
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