Scrap the Desktop

[mech7]

If we just stop using a computer and use brainwaves to communicatie and store information.. would be much more efficient

Build it

[fatality_uk]

I kind of get what you mean. The "Desktop" hasn't really evolved since what, 72' and those hippies at Parc Having said that, it's a very easy shorthand for the majority of users to understand a file system on a PC, i.e. the trash is there, my files go here and my printers there, like a "real" office environment

But wouldn't the first page on your tabbed idea become the "desktop"? Icons to do stuff like mail, trash, my docs?

[de_valentin]

i wish they'd make their screenshots smaller.

taking up to much desktopspace?

Seriously though I like the idea I think I had something like that on windows '95
1 toolbar with several tabs, containing different groups of applications.

[Dixon Bainbridge]

Desktops should be a sandbox, a set of tools that allow the user to adjust it to their requirements. If you want bling and toolbars, then you can add them. If you want ultra minimal, then you canhave that too. If you dont want either and wish to go it alone, then there should be tools for deving that built in too.

Basically, a DE shouldnt impose anything on the user.