WHO KNEW THIS AND NEVER TOLD ME, I LOVE IT SM OMAYGOSHHHH

  • ian@feddit.uk
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    6 days ago

    My desktop is hidden by all the open apps all the time. Sure you can get there via the file manager, but it’s just another folder. And sure you can deliberately minimise all the apps. But the content is, by default hidden, and not in your face, to be stumbled upon like an inbox. Desktops can only contain closed files, and are a flaw in the UX logic.

    • arglebargle@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      No flaw. But KDE has a method for users like you (and me) that prefer our desktops empty. I forget what it’s called but you can set your desktop to have no icons and no folders.

      • ian@feddit.uk
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        5 days ago

        Yes. I use that option. But as I rarely see the desktop, hiding any files or folders makes little difference to using Plasma.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    OK I did not know the desktop could do that, that’s actually pretty cool. I assumed you were talking about virtual desktops but I didn’t realise the icon space on the desktop can spill of screen and then be scrolled.

    That’s actually pretty useful - could keep some less used links of screen until you want and scroll them back into view

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    7 days ago

    Oh wow. I would have never know since i never put stuff on the desktop permanently, only temporary files.

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    7 days ago

    It does? Multiple desktops and activities or something else? (Link doesn’t load)

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      7 days ago

      I use the same widget to also minimize the windows on my current desktop. Unfortunately the Wallpaper Engine plugin does not recognize them as such to unpause the wallpaper.

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      7 days ago

      Bro I could have the entire world map on my desktop made up on icons and you wouldn’t notice, isn’t that fun? 😭

  • Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Huh, interesting. I had no idea. Though for the most part I’ve generally come to enjoy the default of generally having no icons on the desktop anymore. All that sort of stuff relegated to a dodging panel.

    But that’s also part of why I love KDE and plasma. And use it as my preferred desktop over gnome. The configurability.