[Thunar-dev] still about icons

[daniele favara]

On 1/12/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> daniele favara wrote:
> > hi,
>
> Hey,
>
> > from a messege i sent to xfce-devel i dicovered thunar will be able to
> > draw desktop icons.
> >
> > Is there any code "ready " ? for this ... i would understand how to
> > add the support for this in my volume manager.
>
> There was some preliminary code, but I removed it some time ago, because
> it was basicly a mess. I'll import working code when it's ready.
>
> But I guess, your question is targeted at "Where should I put my
> .desktop files to?", right? Thunar just follows the (more or less)
> accepted standard of using ~/Desktop/ as folder to appear on the desktop.

hi Benedikt,

even if ~/Desktop folder can be useful for someone, i don't like it
that much ... i mean ... in unix system the user dir is  $HOME, having
on the Desktop the Desktop dir can confuse who's having the first
approach .. anyway i don't see any solution :).

I would use desktop icons for devices, and maybe even the trash and
some other special folder as photos and so on ..

For devices icons don't you think it could be better a different path?

.thunar/devices or .devices or whatever ...
Those icons should let the user to:

* (p)mount (p)umount the device
* open the folder with FM (thunar)

normally the mount point is in /media, and maybe should even have a
special menu.

So my question is not just

"Where should I put my .desktop files to?"

:)

but what are the features you think you'll include on that stuff ? (see above)

thanks

ciao

df