On Monday, May 09, 2011 14:46:11 Steve Holmes wrote: > Thanks for telling me about the desktop being gone. I really wondered > and am a bit surprised as I thought most people valued and used a > desktop area quite a bit. Yes, I opened up my home directory from the > places and then opened the desktop folder from there. Actually, I > think my desktop was actually a top level folder in my places menu but > still, not the same. In fact, I have had launchers on the desktop in > the past but I guess I could get them on there again if I wanted. > It's just that the desktop was typically addressable from a single > keystroke before. Well whatever... > > I've heard comments like that before about gnome getting less and less > configurable; pretty soon, it will be like that other windows > operating system out there. Though the direction of GNOME where it's getting less and less features and functions isn't something Arch can fix, I agree. It's part of why I like KDE, which is incredibly flexible and loaded. A bit large, though.
