Anne Wilson ha scritto: > On Tuesday 30 Aug 2011 Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Anne Wilson wrote: >>> Now I'm really confused so I made a new folderview to see what really >>> happens in Fedora 14. It opens at ~/. >> The folder view widget itself defaults to ~, but the default layout script >> in 4.6 was explicitly setting the folder of the folder view created by >> default to ~/Desktop. >> > Even more confused, then :-) because I'm running 4.6.5, and it opened at ~. > Maybe it's something in my personal settings. <Sigh> It's so difficult to make > sensible comment when so many things affect the situation. > Slightly OT, but not too much. Maybe it's been discussed before and I missed it. The discussion about folderview brings me to a more general question about 4.x features. In old 3.x times, the Desktop was just a folderview showing the ~/Desktop folder contents. Whatever you wanted to be shown in your Desktop could be either added to it by a context menu, or simply put into the ~/Desktop folder. The only real difference between what was shown on Desktop and what could be seen with a file manager was that on Desktop everything was translated. It was rather simple and straightforward, providing all the functionalities required. An empty Desktop folder would lead to a clean empty Desktop, a Desktop folder populated with links to folders and applications would lead to a Desktop providing quick access to user's most needed features. I fail to grasp the rationale behind creating Plasma and Plasmoids, which to a simple minded like me appear to be nothing but a clumsy implementation of what was already available, and then including the folderview we're discussing, to mimic previous features which in old good times were already there, and much simpler to create and to maintain. Could someone give me a clue of why Plasma, Plasmoids and such should be considered a step forward, and not a step back, as it appears to me? Is there something more than parroting Mac Desktop, which is the poorest point of Mac implementation trading off functionality in favor of pleasant look? What are, by an user point of view, the extra features we've gained? What do I fail to grasp? -- Giuliano Colla Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong (O. Wilde) _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
