feedback on default plasma-desktop layout

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Aug 28 09:34:06 UTC 2011


On Saturday 27 Aug 2011 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Huh?  How do you manage to get a blank folderview?  By default it points
> > to /home/you.
> 
> No. By default, it points to /home/`whoami`/Desktop, which is empty by
> default. (There used to be some default entries in the good old RHL days,
> but these days, there aren't any, except for the live image, which has
> liveinst there by default.) We could probably ship some default entries in
> some kde-sig-default-desktop package (though I'm not sure about where to
> install them too: I guess /etc/skel/Desktop, but xdg-user-dirs also
> translates the directory names, plus I don't know if /etc/skel isn't
> supposed to be reserved for the local admin, it's empty in current Fedora),
> but it'd affect all desktops if installed.
> 
Apologies, then.  Since the first thing I do is reset the folderview to a 
remote directory I never really see the default.  

IIRC the old desktop used to have links to ~/ and Trash - I guess having those 
on the desktop by default would work well for many people.

Anne
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