Comments on: Ubuntu: Two Ways to Keep A Clean Desktop Without Affecting Your Efficiency

By: friartux

friartux — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:51:29 +0000

I use AWN – a dock bar. Create Desktop_Folder in home directory. Open it using nautilus – a filing cabinet (icon) appears on the dock bar. Click it to display/not display the folder. When it’s displayed save it as a bookmark – then its always accessible in the Places menu.
Simple!

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:35:52 +0000

Anotherfolderview looks like an useful app. i will test it out and see if it works on my PC

By: jasonv

jasonv — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:52:16 +0000

Anotherfolderview screenlet seems to be a perfect solution:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/AnotherFolderView+Screenlet?content=111823

too bad i can’t get it to work, keep getting a memory error…

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:42:45 +0000

How about…

- Create a folder. Put all your desktop links into it.

- Add a link to the folder onto your desktop.

- Minimize the folder when not in use.

Or is one icon on your desktop too many? ;o)

By: Donal

Donal — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:08:04 +0000

I’ve been struggling with something in this area.

I’d prefer to display my desktop icons as a list (left of screen) like in Nautilus File Manager but have been unable.
In gconf I’ve set Icon size to “Smaller” and set text to display beside the icons, but the latter setting doesn’t seem to work. (I also have to adjust the text line setting when the icon size is reduced and am not displaying mounted volumes to clean things up). But I don’t want an empty desktop like yours.
I put in a Launchpad bug on this a year ago but it’s not geting any traction and it’s not in the “100 Papercuts” project.

Any thoughts?

By: SiNGH

SiNGH — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:39:40 +0000

Thanx!

^_^

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By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:21:32 +0000

Hi everyone. i would like if you guys gives me the URL of the wallpaper shown on the screenshot. i’ll really apreciate it. Thanks. my email is sodomywar@gmail.com if you want to send i to the email.

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:12:47 +0000

I don’t deny KDE is much better than GNOME in desktop management. However, being a GNOME user, switching to KDE is not one of my option, that why I have to come up with various tricks to do this. Nevertheless, thanks for sharing.

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By: Airdrik

Airdrik — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:40:26 +0000

I totally agree with W. Anderson. KDE 4(.2+) allows quite a bit of flexibility with regards to how you lay out your desktops. The Desktop Activities allows you to set up multiple desktops, each with a different layout so you can put icons on one, clean desktop on another, etc…
If you don’t want to bother with Desktop Activities, you can just use the folder views and utilize the show/hide plasmoids/gadgets to show/hide the ‘desktop’ icons. That coupled with the flexibility in what you can show in a folder view (pick a folder + pick a filter).

Alas, Gnome doesn’t have that kind of flexibility and is designed around an expectation that all users will use their desktops in the same manner (WIMP).

By: W. Anderson

W. Anderson — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:34:59 +0000

All the mechanizations you put forth as a remedy to having “clean”, beautiful desktops while leaving icons of applications and folders/files readily at hand is easily solved – KDE Desktop rel 4.2.2 or higher.

The Folder view configuration let’s one keep all the accessible icons in Folder to be “popped- up” instantly at mouse click. How cool is that, and much more efficient technology and concept.

W. Anderson
wanderson@kimalcorp.org

By: Donofca

Donofca — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:32:25 +0000

I agree, 3 clicks are just too hard. By the end of the day my finger is just too sore to point and I can hardly raise my hand. But that’s the price I pay for doing it the hard way.
(Zero Icons, too. Hmm good name for a club: “The keepers of Zero Icons.”.)

By: akaladis

akaladis — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:55:52 +0000

well, you’re doing it all wrong. up until recently (i haven’t tested this with the latest 2.26 nautilus tbh) you could do a lot better:

Alt+F2 to bring up the run dialog, type “echo ~/Desktop > ~/Desktop/.hidden”

Focus the desktop (click on an empty spot) hit F5, icons are gone! Hit Ctrl+H (as in any other nautilus window, and it shows the hidden icons. Hit Ctrl+H again and they are gone again… etc etc… As fast as it can get… no scripts and the like ;)

By: bertolutti

bertolutti — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:23:15 +0000

or no use icons at all and use gnome-do or something similar

By: rm42

rm42 — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:50:47 +0000

I know exactly where you are coming from. I wrote an article that shows why this is important and how it is handled in KDE. I think you will find it interesting.

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/why-windows-needs-multiple-desktops-capability/

By: Hi

Hi — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:37:29 +0000

Wow! I have 0 icons on my desktop (zero).
I have 23 icons on my menu panel. There one click launches them. The desktop always took a double click. I just don’t have enough spare energy to do a double click.
If an application did not make the top 23 then I use the menu to launch it. That takes three clicks and then I’m exhausted.