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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.

Hello,
Nothing but drive icons....

Hi

I have 18 of them (at present), but they are all for drives/partitions.

For the apps that i use regularly i have wbar

CatDude
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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.

home dir, music dirs, a couple of docs i need to be looking at

prefer a pretty picture

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?

I 've got 25 and counting.

Sit Heel Speak wrote: [snip] and besides, after a single application is up and filling the screen, what use are desktop icons?

Click on pager or click on show-desktop.

To reedit up to date.

Hm, let me count… 0 , incl. drive icons

I'm using dwm with dmenu, no need for icons or mouse-clicking in general.

Bernie_by_the_Sea wrote:

Sit Heel Speak wrote: [snip] and besides, after a single application is up and filling the screen, what use are desktop icons?

Click on pager or click on show-desktop.

On a large monitor, that is two clicks with large wrist movement in between.

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?

10

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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excluding drive icons , anything from 1 - 5 desktop icons - normally file, browser and terminal icons.

Software and directories: 4
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

None. I have 6 icons in wbar though and few on panel:

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...

26 for programs, 4 to 6 for drives, one very convenient "Show Desktop" button in IceWM to let me see all the icons with a single click.

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).