Icons on desktop

[Coburn Ingram]

Aw, Ralf, you gave it away!

I always did think it was odd that the GUI settings have steadily migrated
away from the detailed options once available in dconf, to a user
experience that "just works," but at the same time is severely dumbed-down.
Desktop icons are the latest casualty.

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 10:47 AM Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 10:18 -0800, Coburn Ingram wrote:
> > I found it, but I'm not telling you where, because I'm afraid that
> > you'll delete it, too.
>
> Hi,
>
> my first guess is dconf.
>
> $ gsettings list-recursively | grep gnome | grep icons
> org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false
> [snip]
>
> The dconf secret seems to be the first hit of my first dconf check.
> If so, it took me just less than 10 seconds to run
> $ gsettings --help
> $ gsettings list-recursively | grep gnome | grep icons
>
> However, while some GTK4 apps still might be tolerable, probably all
> apps will become unusable for serious usage after the migration to
> GTK{5,6,7,n}.
>
> I'm not a GNOME user at all, but I'm using openbox and a lot of GTK
> apps. I already dropped countless GTK apps, because GTK developers run
> berserk. In my opinion, the move away from the mailing lists to GNOME
> Discourse, a forum suffering from gamification, is a clear statement.
> The developers train the users to be stupid little circus monkeys.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
>
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