On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 11:54 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 18:45 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:54 +0100, Adel ESSAFI wrote: > >> > Dear list > >> > my question is simple: I use KDE with fedora 9 and I want to enable > >> > the icons on the desktop. Now, I have only the backgroup pic. > > > > So do lots of us. Stay tuned for KDE4.2 in January. Hopefully it will > > implement this. > > > >> Add widget -> Folder view. > >> (Can be configured to view a certain directory with .desktop shortcuts) > > > > That is such a lame work around. You need to explain that it doesn't > > display icons on the desktop as they were in KDE3.5.x. I think this is > > what the OP is asking for. > > > That's not a workaround, that is _the_ way to display icons on files > on a desktop. > > in KDE 3.5, you can only have ~/Desktop , in KDE 4.x, you can have any > folder, esp. consider kioslaves. How is this a regression? *Sigh* You do know that he's a troll, and as such, he'll piggy-back on any thread that looks like a good starting point for yet-another-useless-spam-war on why-he-doesn't-like-KDE-4 and why-Fedora-doesn't-suite-his-needs and/or why-he-rather-switch-to-Ubuntu-but-but-rather-not-as-he-has-nothing-better-to-do, that will fill my junk-mail-box with 200 useless emails. ... But what I don't understand is: Why on Earth are you playing his game? - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines