Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources There should be one standard user-visible concept of "the desktop" as a file location. Then applications such as Mozilla and OpenOffice, among others, can begin to use this standard location. Right now we have ~/.gnome-desktop, ~/Desktop, and probably some others. This thread discusses the issue a bit: http://lists.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2002-June/msg00110.html Here is the same feature request for GNOME: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94612 The main work here is to agree on what Home.desktop and Trash.desktop as populated by the desktop-directory-utils scripts should look like. Should be pretty straightforward.
just for the sake of mentioning it, there is a split in the gnome camp on this issue as many of us would prefer that $home be the desktop.
Closing as GNOME switched to ~/Desktop.
Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained.