{"id":400,"date":"2009-03-18T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T07:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2009-03-17T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T20:52:21","slug":"desktop-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a strategy, nay <em>philosophy<\/em>, about putting icons on the desktop.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe computer desktop is the background you see when you work in a graphical operating system, like Windows or OS X. Left untended, the desktop can sprout icons like a garden can sprout weeds, and with the same visual effect.<\/p>\n<p>There are two extremes for desktop icons. At one end is the desktop purist, who has nothing on the desktop, not even the Recycle Bin. I also count those who keep the Computer, personal account, Network, and Recycle Bin icons among the purists. Perhaps <em>minimalist<\/em> would be a better word for that type of person?<\/p>\n<p>At the other extreme are people who just seem not to care. They litter the desktop with icons. Well, maybe it&#8217;s not on purpose; every program somehow desires to plop its special icon on the desktop. Who&#8217;s to say no? But the end result is clutter and often duplicate icons and icons that hide behind each other. A mess.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself in the middle. I like having desktop icons, and I often use the desktop a repository for temporary stuff I&#8217;m working on. When Windows Vista came out, Microsoft suggested a new desktop policy which is not to save anything directly to the desktop. For that I say, &#8220;Bah,&#8221; I&#8217;ll do with it as a please. But overall, having shortcuts on the desktop can be useful.<\/p>\n<p>Below you see my PC desktop. You can see how I organize or corral my icons in areas that hold special meaning for me. The areas contain oft-used shortcuts that give me quick access to programs, files, folders, and places I frequent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/desktoppc.png\" alt=\"desktoppc\" title=\"desktoppc\" width=\"517\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/desktoppc.png 517w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/desktoppc-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My Mac desktop is also organized similar to my PC desktop, and is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/desktopmac.png\" alt=\"desktopmac\" title=\"desktopmac\" width=\"510\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/desktopmac.png 510w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/desktopmac-300x121.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Temporary files often cluster on my desktop, as shown in the Mac image above. They aren&#8217;t intended to dwell there. It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m out to agree wholly with Microsoft, but more that I know it&#8217;s better to organize my files elsewhere. Still, having them on the desktop does prove handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a strategy, nay philosophy, about putting icons on the desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}