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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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