kde desktop icons

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 18:45 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:54 +0100, Adel ESSAFI wrote:
>> > Dear list
>> > my question is simple: I use KDE with fedora 9 and I want to enable
>> > the icons on the desktop. Now, I have only the backgroup pic.
>
> So do lots of us.  Stay tuned for KDE4.2 in January.  Hopefully it will
> implement this.
>
>> Add widget -> Folder view.
>> (Can be configured to view a certain directory with .desktop shortcuts)
>
> That is such a lame work around.  You need to explain that it doesn't
> display icons on the desktop as they were in KDE3.5.x.   I think this is
> what the OP is asking for.


That's not a workaround, that is _the_ way to display icons on files
on a desktop.

in KDE 3.5, you can only have ~/Desktop , in KDE 4.x, you can have any
folder, esp. consider kioslaves. How is this a regression?

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