Beyond the Rumors of KDE 4.1's Folder View
No icons on the KDE 4.1 desktop?
For over a month, rumors of this change have been sweeping through the free software community, adding to the controversy that has surrounded the popular desktop since version 4.0 was released in January.
However, like many of the concerns about the latest releases of KDE, these rumors have more to do with misleading media reports and users' fear of change than any reality. Behind the rumors, the truth is a new feature called Folder View, which, far from overturning established desktops, enhances them in a number of useful ways.
The rumors started because Aaron Seigo announced Folder View with a blog entry entitled "no more desktop icons in 4.1." Seigo immediately followed the title with "Now that I have your attention with that title," adding a smiley to show that he was joking.
Unfortunately, his next words -- "I just committed a change to the default desktop containment that removes desktop icon support" -- seem to reaffirm the title. As a result, most reports of his news reprinted his title, and the result was an outburst of indignation (often, I suspect, from careless readers who never read the rest of the reports). Many, in fact, swore either never to use KDE again, or to stay with the 3.x series as long as possible.
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