Icons on the Desktop

Harold Aling h.aling at home.nl
Wed Feb 8 10:51:10 CET 2006


Stefan Stuhr wrote:
>> Is there some possibility to place icons on the XFCE desktop?
>>     
> - Xfdesktop has support for icons for minimized windows. Brian seems to
> be working on adding support for icons for files on the the desktop too.
> - Xffm has a desktop view (replacement for Xfdesktop) with file icon
> support.
> - Thunar[1] will eventually have support for desktop icons (also a
> replacement for Xfdesktop).
>   
So there are 3 'components' of XFCE fighting for the desktop? What's the 
use of that? Isn't it better to combine all dev power to form one 
ultimate desktop icon drawing app?

Since XFDesktop already owns my desktop, I vote for icon drawing 
inclusion to be included into XFDesktop...

-H-




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