Remove the desktop

Bug #725610 reported by Avi Romanoff
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
elementary OS
Fix Released
High
Avi Romanoff

Bug Description

No icons on desktop, no desktop folder, no desktop in sidebar, no desktop in nautilus.

Get rid of it.

Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: New → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Avi Romanoff (aroman)
importance: Undecided → High
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Avi Romanoff (aroman) wrote :

Not sure how to do this. It seems that we need to set some xdg stuff, but I don't see how we can without having the user's account already created..

Changed in elementaryos:
assignee: Avi Romanoff (aroman) → nobody
status: In Progress → Triaged
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kpmcdole (kpmcdole) wrote :

XDG would be good if you wanted to remove the places menu. Which shows documents, video, music and the like. I don't think that removing such packages will remove desktop icons.

If you want to have it, make sure you have xdg-desktop and xdg-desktop-menu installed.

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Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote :

So one thing is to get rid of the Desktop in file choosers and shortcuts:

Add XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME" to ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Change /schemas/apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir in gconf
Change /schemas/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop in gconf

See http://people.gnome.org/~bmsmith/gconf-docs/C/nautilus.html

Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: Triaged → Opinion
Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: Opinion → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
milestone: none → 0.1-beta
Avi Romanoff (aroman)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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probono (probono) wrote :

What is the advantage of this? Personally I fundamentally disagree with this direction.

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