What has happened to desktop icons in rawhide?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 13:39 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:

> 
> I've not ever asked for a "degraded user experience" what I'm asking
> for it not to put dependency hacks to fix a problem that should be
> fixed in some other way. Please don't put this out of context.

I've yet to see a proposal for what that 'other way' would be.
I'm open to dropping the dependency when such a proposal surfaces...