On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 22:30 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:02:46PM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 18:10 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 16:05 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > > I personally feel that the 'folder view' widget is a waste of energy > > > > and > > > > of no real value and just resort to using Dolphin and in fact, moved > > > > all > > > > of the files and folders off my desktop and just keep a couple of > > > > 'launchers' there. It is a prettier desktop and once I adjusted my > > > > expectations, there actually is little difference. > > > > > > That is exactly what happened to me. Only I had ~50 files and folders > > > on my desktop (across 2 20" 1680x1050 monitors). Using Dolphin instead > > > of just moving things on the desktop itself was a HUGE pain. > > > > > > Furthermore, when one views files in a file manager like Dolphin, you > > > can't "clump" the files together in groups like you can on the desktop. > > > > > > With KDE4, one could make an icon for every file/folder you wanted on > > > the Desktop, but that is an extra step too. > > > > > > I'm hoping that the future KDE4 desktops support traditional drag and > > > drop desktop file/folder management. I think folder view is a useful > > > ADDITION to a traditional desktop. I don't think it supplants it. > > ---- > > it does appear that an 'upgrade' from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4 (i.e. Fedora 8 to > > Fedora 9) would put an icon for each file on the desktop but it's rather > > easy to click them closed and the icons are gone. > > > > As for it being a pain to use a file manager like Dolphin rather than > > just being able to drag and drop from the desktop...you better get used > > to that because the Desktop is no longer an active player in file > > management with KDE. I think that suggesting it was a pain to use a file > > manager is somewhat absurd. What you are saying is that your > > expectations are not realized and to that, I am sympathetic but not to > > the suggestion that it is somehow painful. > > > > Craig > > I have always found ksh a better way than iconic file managers of > manipulating files because of the scripting and globbing capabilities of > ksh combined with the mv/rm commands. ---- but that isn't the point of what we are discussing. We are discussing a basic expectation of the GUI and file management thus file operations in a non-gui environment really don't pertain to the discussion at hand. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
