On Thursday 22 June 2023 07.09:54 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
Desktop icons can be safely removed. They are simple files in the
~/Desktop directory (folder).
I would add that you can *create* such icons yourself (right-click on the
desktop -> create new -> different choices)
Linux symlinks are more powerful than Windows shortcuts.
TDE's "icons" can be more powerful than those on most desktops:
create new -> link to location lets you create a "shortcut" to a
drive/partition and you can drag & drop to this "shortcut".
create new -> link to device lets you, for example, create a link to a DVD,
USB or network drive, and it let's your mount/unmount it.
create new -> link to application lets you create a shortcut to any program
(creates a *.desktop file).
Any such icon can be dragged to kicker (the "task bar"). And when we are
there, TDE's taskbar is much more powerful than Window's. I first remove the
useless "task" element (alt-tab works so well) and I have all the
applications I daily use living there.
And last: explore the TDE desktop because the main difference with Windows is
that where you have to learn how to use the Windows Desktop, in TDE it's you
who decide how the desktop will work for you.
As a side note, I still miss the workplace shell's "shadows" that would
disappear when you removed the program they were linked to... No other
desktop seems to have this feature...
Regards,
Thierry