Desktop Organization

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 9 Aug 2014 15:11:04 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 8 August 2014 18:21, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > You misunderstand what is going on. The vertical row of icons you see on the
> > lefy of your screen are NOT desktop icons. The vertical row is a *launcher*,
> > very much like the (typically) horizontal launcher of the current incarnation
> > of (Mac)OS-X. Ubuntu's 'Unity' desktop system has lifted ideas more from
> > (Mac)OS-X than MS-Windows (including what it does with menubars).
> >
> > It is possible to install alternive desktop systems (eg GNome, KDE, etc.) that
> > have a more 'MS-Windows' flavor, which might be more to your liking.
> 
> 
> While all this is perfectly true, you can still have desktop icons in
> Unity. No need to change desktops.

Sure, just like with (Mac)OS-X. The *impression* I get from the OP is that he
is probably coming from a mess-windows world and not a Mac world ("I am a PC,
not a Mac") and is thinking of the (Unity) launcher as part of the desktop --
it is not. I was only *suggesting* that maybe installing one of the other
desktop systems might result in a more 'confortable' (familiar) user
experience (i.e. one more similar to what the OP was used to, with a typical
'start up menu' in the lower left corner with one (or more) 'panels' with the
usually connection of applets and a desktop in the middle.

> 

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