On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:04:53 -0700 Michael <mogmios@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One thing I hate that I think could be improved on. Important icons that > are on the desktop which you can only reach my closing or minimizing all > the windows open on top of it. Doh. The desktop is obviously an > application like any other so it should behave like any other. Let's > have a tab for it just as we do for other applications. Special cases > are usually a bad idea. In Gnome you can right click on the panel, select "Add to panel" and then choose "Show Desktop". That'll give you a little icon on your panel that is always available and makes getting to the desktop easy. Isn't that enough? Sean