Lets take the worst of windows and make it the unchangeable default of linux

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Joe Cooper wrote:

> My girlfriend recently wanted to be rid of the Nautilus-generated 
> Trash and Home icons on the desktop, without actually getting rid of 
> nautilus...It took me half an hour to find where that option was 
> hidden away in gconf-editor, some kind of Registry-like beast.


half an hour ;-)

$ gconf-editor

/apps  or  /desktop  ??

my first try was /desktop
  10 sec later - no
my second  /apps
  ah, 10 sec later  /apps/nautilus/desktop !!

/apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible
/apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible

indeed,  30 sec and not an half hour ;-)

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shrek-m