Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th May 2007 09:40 UTC, submitted by Carl
E17 is maturing, and the TODO that needs to be completed for its release is shrinking. Desktop icons are now working in E17 cvs, and you can use drag and drop between the file manager and the desktop. "Icons on the desktop. A work in progress. you will need ~/Desktop to exist with stuff in it. i suggest copying some of the favorites files over (home.desktop etc.)." There's even a screenshot.
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Actually, with icons on the desktop being so inefficient to work with, it's no surprise that it was somewhere at the bottom of the priority list.
Besides, there are already several other programs which offer these icons, independent of the window manager one uses. With these already around, the only reasons why somebody might want to implement such a feature in a window manager would be:
* in order to have them more closely integrated with the environment (see the case of Gnome -- okay, Gnome is not a window manager -- but you can already get the point, i.e. you can have emblems, modify permissions, write notes and/or comments regarding that program, in order to be used for accessibility reasons etc.)
* in order to implement features which are so non-standard that there would be no reason to implement them outside the window manager in question. Things like this include stuff like animated icons, icons that wobble when you move your mouse over them and so on -- things nobody but the e17 developers would want to write and nobody but e17 users would want to have.
Either way, it's not a question of e17 being developed slowly which can be proven by the fact that icons have appeared on the desktop in 2007. They should have been long gone from the desktop for several years now.