State of Desktop

[Adam Retter]

According to the FAQ - this will be introduced in 4.2 or later in 4.4?

Any idea of the development cycle? i.e. will the wait for native desktop
icon support be a long time?

Thanks

Adam.

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 15:32, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> if i had a dollar for every time someone asks this...
> 
> http://kelnos.homelinux.org/xfce4/#faq
> 
> nautilus should work, but you'll lose the desktop menu.  also, there may 
> be some icon theming issues with the nautilus that comes with gnome 
> 2.6.  i'd suggest you use one of the other alternatives listed in the FAQ.
> 
>     -brian
> 
> Adam Retter wrote:
> 
> >Hi Guys,
> >
> >Ive been using XFCE4 for a while now and I rather like it, but the most
> >frustrating thing I find apart from the Launcher menus is the Desktop.
> >
> >Is there any plans for XFCE to make it possible to have icons on your
> >desktop?
> >
> >Also I have seen something called CoBind Linux (www.cobind.com) where
> >they use XFCE and have icons on their desktop - although I think this
> >may be provided by Nautilus. If I install Nautilus will i be able to
> >have icons on my XFCE desktop and if so is any additional configuration
> >required?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Adam.
> >
> >  
> >
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