Muti-Desktop Icons-Bob?

[Joshua R. Altemoos]

Yea becuase under kde you can name teh desktops be why can;t you do speical 
icons for each lolz

On Friday 29 August 2003 11:02 am, Joe wrote:
> Peter,
>        I have been sticking with kde so far because I got it to work
> almost the way I wanted and so I haven't experimented with gnome much
> yet.  What you describe sounds intriguing, but I don't really get it.
> Can you elaborate or show some screen shots etc.?
>        The main thing I don't like about kde is that when I open more
> than 4 windows, the window area of the task bar piles up and I can't see
> what's there without clicking on things.  I was hoping that switching to
> another desktop would have an effect on this, but it didn't.  Does what
> you're talking about have anything to do with this?
>        Under Windows, I built a bunch of desktops for special purposes
> just like Josh is talking about.  It was really cool and kept them from
> getting impossibly cluttered with unrelated applications.  It would be
> great to be able to do that in Linux.
>
> Joe
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
> > IMHO,
> >   I think this is all just a matter of how we look at things, that is
> > to say that after I have been working with Gnome for a while, a few
> > things have become clear as to how intuitive this desktop is. For
> > instance,
> > 1. The multiple desktop window, or workspace switcher. I often
> > wondered why Gnome did not include a show desktop button. If you use
> > the workspace switcher for this, it works even better. As simple as
> > that is and being so ingrained with the way windows worked, this never
> > occurred to me to use it this way. I know with the Gnome that comes
> > with RH9, they include a show desktop button but I think that was to
> > appeal people that don't think this way. It still doesn't work as one
> > would expect, yes it will minimize all open windows but when you open
> > one again, they all open. I find this a strange way to behave but I
> > think it falls in line with the way you should think of using the
> > workspace switcher.
> > 2. Bob has a good idea, a workspace for a given task, email, graphics
> > stuff, etc. And Josh has a good idea with different icons on different
> > workspaces. This is all thought of as being limited because the
> > different workspaces cannot show respective icons, however, if we do
> > not think of using the desktop icons as our only shortcuts, then we
> > can bypass this limitation. The drawer icon that can be added to
> > Gnome's panel, could be used in such a way, even renamed, or with
> > different icons, etc. This way you could add many drawers with
> > different names/icons for use with the different workspaces, even
> > naming your workspaces and drawers the same to keep things simple.
> >
> > Just some thoughts.
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 08:17, Robert Meyer wrote:
> >>/Nope, no way to do that, either.  I suspect that it has to do with being
> >> able to change the number of desktops.  You could wind up losing
> >> applications if you could do that.  I agree that it would be a good idea
> >> though.  You could have your graphics desktop, your Email desktop, etc.
> >>
> >>I don't think that Gnome will do that, either.
> >>
> >>Cheers!
> >>
> >>Bob
> >>
> >>--- "Joshua R. Altemoos" <joshua at navyjosh.us> wrote:
> >>> Well Not That i mean like on desktop1 i have my app icosn desl2 urls
> >>> etc
> >>>
> >>> On Friday 29 August 2003 12:30 am, Robert Meyer wrote:
> >>> > As far as I can tell, the only thing that you can change between
> >>> > desktops is the background since the icons are part of the theme
> >>> > itself.  I think that this is for a very good reason.  Imagine a new
> >>> > user that is on a system where the icons keep changing everytime they
> >>> > click on that funny looking thing in the task bar :-)
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers!
> >>> >
> >>> > Bob
> >>> >
> >>> > --- "Joshua R. Altemoos" <joshua at navyjosh.us> wrote:
> >>> > > Hey,
> >>> > >
> >>> > > In kde on mandrake 9.1 is there a way to make it so each desktop
> >>> > > has differnt
> >>> > >
> >>> > > icons? If so how?
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Thanks Much
> >>> > > --
> >>> > > Best Regards,
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Joshua R. Altemoos
> >>> > > joshua at navyjosh.us
> >>> >
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> >>>
> >>> Joshua R. Altemoos
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> >>
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Best Regards,

Joshua R. Altemoos
joshua at navyjosh.us