POLL: How many desktop icons?
- Bernie_by_the_Sea
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POLL: How many desktop icons?
How many icons do you have on the desktop?
I prefer icon clicking over menu searching so I have about 50 icons in Wary and about 75 in Windows. However, recently I’ve been playing with Knoppix and Mepis where I have only one icon on the desktop. I’m beginning to think menus might not be all that bad.
I prefer icon clicking over menu searching so I have about 50 icons in Wary and about 75 in Windows. However, recently I’ve been playing with Knoppix and Mepis where I have only one icon on the desktop. I’m beginning to think menus might not be all that bad.
- Bernie_by_the_Sea
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My Puppy versus my Mepis... and I see I have only 31 plus drives in Wary -- it's Lucid where I have 50.
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- Sit Heel Speak
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Same philosophy here as puppyluvr and CatDude. Only drive icons, no application icons. Applications are started via wbar. Particular partition+subdirectory combinations can be added to the wbar menu for instant access, for example the / directory as shown in this screen capture. I, too, prefer a pretty picture, and besides, after a single application is up and filling the screen, what use are desktop icons?
- Bernie_by_the_Sea
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- Sit Heel Speak
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On a large monitor, that is two clicks with large wrist movement in between.Bernie_by_the_Sea wrote:Click on pager or click on show-desktop.Sit Heel Speak wrote: [snip] and besides, after a single application is up and filling the screen, what use are desktop icons?
Since the window manager I'm using (l0wt3ch's build of icewm) very seldom puts a window entirely over the wbar tray, it usually takes me only one click --or, at most, a slight drag of a title bar down, then a click on wbar-- to start an app.
But I can see where your way might be preferable when using a small monitor, e.g. a netbook. Particularly if the background is such as to make wbar-at-the-top-edge not feasible. Or if there is not enough horizontal screen real estate to accommodate wbar.
And I can think of other scenarios where pager+desktop_icon might be preferable, e.g. want to keep two applications on separate pages.
Whatever puts water on your cooling-pond.
i don't use icons but if you count tabs - its 19.
yeahlaunch is my menu - much lighter than wbar but not as pretty.
well text can be pretty?
yeahlaunch is my menu - much lighter than wbar but not as pretty.
well text can be pretty?
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- ttuuxxx
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21 desktop icons and 8 drive icons
never really add to them, So I'll vote for 21 icons. Drives vary
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never really add to them, So I'll vote for 21 icons. Drives vary
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AppStarter, Rox, Console and 'mylinks' folder shortcut (by jrb's linker).
Drives: 5 - 9 (min - max)
5 partitions
1-2 Usb drives
0-2 Cd/Dvd-drive
Last edited by GustavoYz on Thu 24 Mar 2011, 08:36, edited 1 time in total.
None, I have only drive icons, and a custom JWM menu, which I LOVE.
I right click or middle click on the desktop to bring up either the Puppy menu, or the (customisable) Apps menu...
It seems Wbar is very popular indeed, and many users could stand to disable the ROX pinboard...
I right click or middle click on the desktop to bring up either the Puppy menu, or the (customisable) Apps menu...
It seems Wbar is very popular indeed, and many users could stand to disable the ROX pinboard...
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- pa_mcclamrock
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20 icons excluding the big red "save" icon and drive icons. These are mostly default icons that comes pre-installed, I only added two more icons, and those are the icons I constantly use. For other things, I use the menus - because I like running apps full screen (thus makes the icons unaccessible).
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