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On 24/01/12 12:45, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Simon Waters wrote: > >> >> George Parker wrote: >>> >>> and I use the desktop as a temporary dumping >>> ground for current projects and most used information. With KDE4 I can >>> get that by ignoring 80% of a huge package. With Gnome3 I haven't >> >> As noted in the GNOME 3 docs they were specifically trying to avoid >> dumping stuff on the desktop as it is considered a generally bad >> habit in >> terms of efficiency and organisation (yes they are subtly trying to >> get us >> to work more efficiently - the bastards). They don't want the desktop >> metaphor, so probably why you aren't getting there. >> >> As noted here previously install GNOME UI tweaks and put the file >> manager >> in charge of your desktop and it'll allow you to indulge your bad >> habits, >> but probably if you think of Windows managers as "Desktops" then >> Windows 7 >> and GNOME aren't going in the direction you want to go. > > So.. let me get this right... 20 years ago we had a windowing > environment, then MS invented this "desktop metaphor" ... Now we're > going back to the pure windowing thing... > > I'm sure it's not as simple as that, but if so, it's making me chuckle > ;-) We did have WIMP environments at one point, as in Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers, so another name for one of those. > Gordon > -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.ubuntu.com skype : psutton111 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq