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Because very few people used these icons? How many program positions on your desktop can you reliably remember without having to search? Isn't it just about th

by ffsm8 2y ago

Because very few people used these icons? How many program positions on your desktop can you reliably remember without having to search? Isn't it just about the same amount as you can fit in the menu bar you've got on KDE/unity/gnome? And if you've gotta search, isn't the launcher with fuzzy search quicker anyway?

nine_k 2y ago
Indeed. Menus are searchable, desktop contents rarely are (and if they are, the search results look like a menu anyway).
- exe34 2y ago
  I didn't need to search for it, I had them in groups and used spatial memory. nowadays I've just given up on desktop environments entirely and just use xmonad and dmenu. I got fed up with people having their own ideas of how my computing experience should be.
dgfitz 2y ago
What about an end user, to whom say, you sell a tablet with software they asked you to write. It works like a champ. If they close it, odds are having a shortcut on the desktop they can just tap to re-open it would be most welcome. No?
- ffsm8 2y ago
  In case you didn't notice, mouse and keyboard on a PC with a non touch display has a very different input scheme and consequently can't be compared like that. If something works well on such a platform doesn't man it's useful on the other
badsectoracula 2y ago
> How many program positions on your desktop can you reliably remember without having to search This is why being able to move the icons where you want is helpful: takes advantage of spatial memory :-). (though on Linux where i use Window Maker - and thus have no desktop icons - i just use task-specific workspaces and each workspace has its own icons/launchers on the clip for the stuff i use most often, which acts as a workspace-specific dock)
pmontra 2y ago
> Because very few people used these icons? I'm not sure about this explanation. Almost everybody has icons on the screen of their phones amd tablets, and multiple pages of them, and they seem to remember well were those icons are.
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by ffsm8 2y ago

nine_k 2y ago

Indeed. Menus are searchable, desktop contents rarely are (and if they are, the search results look like a menu anyway).

exe34 2y ago
I didn't need to search for it, I had them in groups and used spatial memory. nowadays I've just given up on desktop environments entirely and just use xmonad and dmenu. I got fed up with people having their own ideas of how my computing experience should be.

dgfitz 2y ago

What about an end user, to whom say, you sell a tablet with software they asked you to write. It works like a champ. If they close it, odds are having a shortcut on the desktop they can just tap to re-open it would be most welcome. No?

ffsm8 2y ago
In case you didn't notice, mouse and keyboard on a PC with a non touch display has a very different input scheme and consequently can't be compared like that. If something works well on such a platform doesn't man it's useful on the other

badsectoracula 2y ago

> How many program positions on your desktop can you reliably remember without having to search This is why being able to move the icons where you want is helpful: takes advantage of spatial memory :-). (though on Linux where i use Window Maker - and thus have no desktop icons - i just use task-specific workspaces and each workspace has its own icons/launchers on the clip for the stuff i use most often, which acts as a workspace-specific dock)

pmontra 2y ago

> Because very few people used these icons? I'm not sure about this explanation. Almost everybody has icons on the screen of their phones amd tablets, and multiple pages of them, and they seem to remember well were those icons are.

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