Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Jan 2009 10:58 UTC
Ever year, Linus Torvalds goes on vacation to Australia, during which he usually also visits linux.conf.au. During his stay this year he gave an interview to ComputerWorld, in which he talked about the success of point releases and the important topic of file systems in Linux, which is quite an active field today with ext4 and Btrfs. He also gave some insights into why he switched away from KDE, moving to GNOME instead, and he shares his thoughts on Windows 7.
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RE[10]: Not just about the "features"
by lemur2 on Sun 25th Jan 2009 06:20
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Member since:2007-02-17
Creating a new folderview plasmoid may seem easy, but it's still not as easy as a right-click directly on the desktop and then clicking "new shortcut"
All of the KDE 4.0 and KDE 4.1 distributions that I have seen have included a folderview of the ~/Desktop folder by default. Within the area defined by the folderview, one can indeed right-click directly on the desktop and then click "new shortcut".
In KDE 4.2, one can now have a folderview area occupy the entire screen area. One can also now have icons in the folderview placed anywhere one wants them.
I daresay most KDE distributions will from now on ship with a full-screen folderview of the ~/Desktop folder set up as desktop #1. This will be entirely indistinguishable from KDE 3 for most users.
RE[10]: Not just about the "features"
by phoenix on Sun 25th Jan 2009 22:19
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If you're really going to use the metaphor of a real desk, then a /Desktop directory is a necessity. After all, there has to be some "lowest level" where things are not "put away" into folders.
Wouldn't (shouldn't) that be ~/ then? Why an arbitrary folder that is separate from your "lowest level" home directory?
RE[11]: Not just about the "features"
by Moochman on Sun 25th Jan 2009 23:15
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If you're really going to use the metaphor of a real desk, then a /Desktop directory is a necessity. After all, there has to be some "lowest level" where things are not "put away" into folders.
Even if you don't agree, I don't see how letting you put things on the lowest level by default is hurting anyone. You don't like it, don't use it, it's that simple. Meanwhile traditionalists and average users are not turned off because they don't grock this whole "folderview plasmoid" thingy.
Creating a new folderview plasmoid may seem easy, but it's still not as easy as a right-click directly on the desktop and then clicking "new shortcut". The question is, is it really easy enough for the average person to use, or will we end up with the majority of people inexplicably having no icons at all on their desktops, period, because they can't figure out how to use the new system?