Adding home folder/trash can to desktop + plea for simplicity

[Neil Winchurst]

On 12/12/11 08:57, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 
> Or recreate all icons only once in a folder view widget. To show how it 
> might look like, I attached a picture of 4 desktops with different 
> background which was actually made from 4 screen shots of the various 
> desktops.
> 
> First I enabled the "Different widgets for each desktop" option. Then I 
> changed the background for each desktop to an individual color. Next I 
> added a folder view widget to each desktop which all pointed to the same 
> directory (~/Desktop). In the folder view of one of the desktops I 
> created the icons and they were of course visible on all 4 desktops. 
> 
>> As I have already said previously, why couldn't the developers leave
>> things as they were?
> 
> I think it's called "progress". Whether that kind of progress is good or 
> bad is debatable and probably depends on personal preferences.
> 
Thanks for the help, I will have a look at it. It still seems a long
winded way to do something that was so easy in KDE3.

On your last point, I fail to see how removing something that is working
well can be called 'progress'. I thought progress meant either
improving/correcting something that is not working quite right or adding
something new.

Oh well, press on

Neil