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

Anno domini 2023 Thu, 22 Jun 12:37:11 -0500 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users scripsit:

On 2023-06-21 19:14:31 jim_gunn--- via tde-users wrote:

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I'm brand new to Linux and just installed the Trinity desktop with Q4OS on a older pc. One thing I am unclear about- are the shortcut icons on the Trinity desktop that came with my distro installation for example, LibreOffice or Thunderbird able to be deleted or removed from the desktop without removing the apps themselves just like on a Windows desktop where the icons are just shortcuts and can be deleted safely without removing the apps themselves? ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@trinitydesktop.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@trinitydesktop.org Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt op.org

Another option, if like me, you never use desktop icons, is to go to Desktop => Behavior and uncheck the Show icons on desktop box, which will hide them all.

... which actually is the only way to enjoy desktop applications like xsnow :)

Nik

Leslie

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Thanks to everyone who replied. I'll try to get some inspiration to beautify my desktop once I learn a bit more about the Trinity Desktop Environment. I'm working for now on a seventeen year old Pentium D 3.00 Ghz PC with only 2 GB of RAM. So I'll soon see how much it can handle without bogging down. Aside from being included with Q4OS, Trinity Desktop Environment was advertised as being lightweight so that's why I gave it a try on such a now under powered desktop.

Appreciate the suggestion about an alternate distro suitable for very old hardware. Q4OS was a very easy install for a Linux novice and included Trinity DE by default, so I'm going to experiment with Trinity for now in Q4OS to tweak the desktop to my liking and see how that goes.