[arch-general] Cannot Find Desktop in GNOME3

[Yaro Kasear]

On Monday, May 09, 2011 14:46:11 Steve Holmes wrote:
> Thanks for telling me about the desktop being gone.  I really wondered
> and am a bit surprised as I thought most people valued and used a
> desktop area quite a bit.  Yes, I opened up my home directory from the
> places and then opened the desktop folder from there.  Actually, I
> think my desktop was actually a top level folder in my places menu but
> still, not the same.  In fact, I have had launchers on the desktop in
> the past but I guess I could get them on there again if I wanted.
> It's just that the desktop was typically addressable from a single
> keystroke before.  Well whatever...
> 
> I've heard comments like that before about gnome getting less and less
> configurable; pretty soon, it will be like that other windows
> operating system out there.

Though the direction of GNOME where it's getting less and less features and 
functions isn't something Arch can fix, I agree. It's part of why I like KDE, 
which is incredibly flexible and loaded. A bit large, though.