Interestingly, this makes me remember why KDE decided to get rid of the "desktop as a folder" paradigm. It doesn't make sense when you use your desktop for other purposes like system monitors. Maybe you can make your downloads go to a downloads folder instead, and use an applet to open the folder in a menu from the panel. That way, you have easy access to downloaded content, and it keeps your desktop clean too.

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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Daniel Underwood < daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:

>  Do you have any reference of someone else getting this working
>  with gnome?

No.  I've found others asking the same question, but no one who has been
successful.

> Also, at this point i would ask how are your code-diving skills.

I code in C++ regularly using a combination of vim and gedit.  I've used
cscope to find particular things before.  And I'm familiar with most of
the relevant unix tools such as find/grep/sed etc., but I'm not sure
exactly what you're asking...

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