[Design-team] Owners and (Co) Maintainers Email Meeting #4 [PUBLIC VERSION]--September 10, 2010

[Nicu Buculei]

On 09/11/2010 10:50 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Nicu Buculei  wrote:
>> -1 to having application icons on the desktop, they are in the menu and
>> if the users want them on the desktop, it is trivial.
>
> I added this icon in the first place to enable people to access
> further resources. I feel that Mo's introduction of Inkscape to
> students is a resource we should link to (for those who don't know:
> http://opensource.com/education/10/4/introducing-open-source-middle-school).
> I'd like to see us expanding that - whether these links should be on
> the desktop or in the browser or some other place is certainly
> debatable, though. :)

IMO, a default cluttered desktop makes us feel like OEMs adding tons of 
crapware on their Windows pre-installs.

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