Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Rationale: folderview is redundant, as users ought to be familiar with file managers (namely dolphin or similar)
Most users don't even know what a file manager is (or in some cases even what a file is, other than "that thing on my desktop", for that matter; those are those folks who put files on their desktop rather than links).
Rationale: Users can build up their systems from an empty slate, as desired, rather than being forced to deconstruct one before constructing their own
It's just one click to remove the widget if unwanted, adding it if wanted is actually harder.
Rationale: cluttered desktops are ugly and counter to the kde4 paradigm of order, place and function
Desktops showing the contents of the Desktop folder have been the standard paradigm in computing since 1995, and are what users are used to.
Kevin Kofler