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TheLinuxExperiment: Menus, windows, launchers & system trays SUCK. What can we replace them with? (tilvids.com)

submitted 5 months ago by onlinepersona to c/linux

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If you think about productivity, you can't help but think that having the default state of your computer being an image with a few icons on it is less than stellar. For opening files, it will never be tidy enough to give you access to all you need, you need a launcher or a folder structure, meaning the desktop is bad at this. For opening apps, having visual shortcuts on the desktop is a duplicate of whatever panel or launcher you have.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Ah, OpenDoc. It was a good start, back in the 90s, and now is seen as an impossible pipedream. Ah well.