On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 16:05 -0700, Craig White wrote:
I personally feel that the 'folder view' widget is a waste of energy and of no real value and just resort to using Dolphin and in fact, moved all of the files and folders off my desktop and just keep a couple of 'launchers' there. It is a prettier desktop and once I adjusted my expectations, there actually is little difference.
That is exactly what happened to me. Only I had ~50 files and folders on my desktop (across 2 20" 1680x1050 monitors). Using Dolphin instead of just moving things on the desktop itself was a HUGE pain.
Furthermore, when one views files in a file manager like Dolphin, you can't "clump" the files together in groups like you can on the desktop.
With KDE4, one could make an icon for every file/folder you wanted on the Desktop, but that is an extra step too.
I'm hoping that the future KDE4 desktops support traditional drag and drop desktop file/folder management. I think folder view is a useful ADDITION to a traditional desktop. I don't think it supplants it.