State of Desktop

Jean-François Wauthy pollux at xfce.org
Tue Apr 27 17:09:20 CEST 2004


Le mar 27/04/2004 à 16:40, Adam Retter a écrit :
> According to the FAQ - this will be introduced in 4.2 or later in 4.4?
> 
According to brian (who is the maintainer of xfdesktop) it will be
introduced 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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Jean-François Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org>
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