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Force a clean desktop by removing the Desktop
Authored by: kirkmc on Jun 23, '04 05:46:54AM

I truly don't see the point...

If you don't want anything on your Desktop, don't put anything there. The few programs that download files have settings for an alternate download folder. Why futz around with the system (and risk breaking something when the next update comes around) for something like this? There's also the Folder Action idea, which accomplishes the same thing...

Seriously, this seems a bit too dangerous to be useful.



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Force a clean desktop by removing the Desktop
Authored by: risc_abacus on Jun 24, '04 01:44:40AM

Why would moving the Desktop be dangerous? It's user space for the user to do what they want with it... remove it or keep it...

Why remove it/mute it? Simple some people like myself just find it a little to easy to drop URL from a browser to the desktop... or clippings... as I type this I have 81 items on my desktop 81, yes 81 items and its a mess... all links that I want to keep but not links I want to bookmark.



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Force a clean desktop by removing the Desktop
Authored by: kirkmc on Jun 24, '04 07:46:48AM

I think it is dangerous because, in spite of it being part of the user space, it's something that the system may look for. And, since by default, downloads go there, it just seems like something that can break.

As for your 81 items on the desktop, well, if you can't put them there, where will you put them? What purpose does removing the desktop have? You'll need to put them somewhere else, and you'll need a way to get them there. (I'm assuming you put things on the Desktop because it's easily accessible.) So if it's no longer available to drop stuff, where do you drop things?

FWIW, I put stuff on my Desktop, but keep it relatively clean, with a few subfolders for different types of files, or I move files into other folders elsewhere in my home folder.



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