WHO KNEW THIS AND NEVER TOLD ME, I LOVE IT SM OMAYGOSHHHH

  • tekKØOPEnglish
    3•22 hours ago

    Holy moley this has blown up 😭

  • @BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36•3 days ago

    OK I did not know the desktop could do that, that’s actually pretty cool. I assumed you were talking about virtual desktops but I didn’t realise the icon space on the desktop can spill of screen and then be scrolled.

    That’s actually pretty useful - could keep some less used links of screen until you want and scroll them back into view

  • @ian@feddit.ukEnglish
    0•1 day ago

    My desktop is hidden by all the open apps all the time. Sure you can get there via the file manager, but it’s just another folder. And sure you can deliberately minimise all the apps. But the content is, by default hidden, and not in your face, to be stumbled upon like an inbox. Desktops can only contain closed files, and are a flaw in the UX logic.

    • arglebargleEnglish
      1•8 hours ago

      No flaw. But KDE has a method for users like you (and me) that prefer our desktops empty. I forget what it’s called but you can set your desktop to have no icons and no folders.

      • @ian@feddit.ukEnglish
        1•5 hours ago

        Yes. I use that option. But as I rarely see the desktop, hiding any files or folders makes little difference to using Plasma.

    • tekKØOPEnglish
      3•22 hours ago

      No clue what you just said but ok 👍

    • Visikde
      1•21 hours ago

      @ian @tekKUh
      What’s a Desktop?
      Never use it mine is completely empty, no files, no launcher, panels (3) all autohide

      Workspaces are my jam 3-6 depending on machine & distro
      A self imposed organizational scheme of what goes where
      If it all goes wrong banging the cursor in the top left tiles…

    • @Zachariah@lemmy.world
      27•3 days ago

      everyone’s files on the desktop are temporary

      it just takes some of us a little longer to get to all of them

      • tekKØOPEnglish
        8•3 days ago

        Made me cry -1 tears [jk pls dont shoot me]

    • tekKØOPEnglish
      22•3 days ago

      Nah, if you just put the file lower than the lowest part of the grid, it just snaps below that to create a NEW column and turns into a scroll-able, I accidentally did this and now Im in love with it lol

      In the video: I had 2 files, I proceeded to then use the middle scroll to then scroll to another file at the very bottom of the desktop, and I was able to just scroll up and down like it was a window, not sure if its a bug, but I do NOT want it fixed lol

        • tekKØOPEnglish
          7•2 days ago

          It does because it doesnt feel intentional how it starts a new column, but I love it still. [It should just be a feature with starting columns easier]

    • tekKØOPEnglish
      7•3 days ago

      Bro I could have the entire world map on my desktop made up on icons and you wouldn’t notice, isn’t that fun? 😭

    • DarkThoughts
      2•2 days ago

      I use the same widget to also minimize the windows on my current desktop. Unfortunately the Wallpaper Engine plugin does not recognize them as such to unpause the wallpaper.

  • @Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•3 days ago

    Huh, interesting. I had no idea. Though for the most part I’ve generally come to enjoy the default of generally having no icons on the desktop anymore. All that sort of stuff relegated to a dodging panel.

    But that’s also part of why I love KDE and plasma. And use it as my preferred desktop over gnome. The configurability.