icons on desktop with xfce

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:50, purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
> 040425 Sami Samhuri wrote:
> >> Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 09:40:01PM +0200 when virtuoso2001 said:
> >> i've seen from screenshots that xfce doesn't provide desktop icons
> >> like windows xp. how can i fix this problem ?
> > It's a feature, not a problem. :)
> > Of course that depends who you're talking to.
> > The way to "fix" this is to use a desktop which supports icons.
> > I don't use one, but Rox seems to be popular with XFCE users.
> > If you're looking for WinXP-like functionality
> > I wouldn't really suggest XFCE.
> 
> hear, hear, esp the last.  as a potential user, Virtuoso should understand
> that XFCE has launchers in the panel & a desktop menu to come in 4.2 (IIRC),
> while the way to access documents in XFCE is either to start an editor (etc)
> or a terminal or to use the file-manager Xffm (or another of his choice).
> M$ mixes all these things up as desktop icons
> because it lacks terminals, launchers & multiple desktops
> & feels free to choose how to open documents w/o asking the user first.

I'm still giggling over "how can I fix this problem ?"

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