KDE Plasma Remains Committed To Supporting Icons On The Desktop

[FireBurn]

They didn't remove them in Plasma 5, they just changed the default to have a folder view widget on the desktop with the option to have regular icons instead (which a few distros have as default anyway). In Plasma 5.11 the default changed to having regular icons, which they've committed to for 5.12 - their reasoning that more and more people are used to that on _mobile_ devices. Which goes against your argument completely.

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Removing desktop icons is such an insane idea. The code to support that cannot be that great and should not take much to maintain, so thats a pretty lousy excuse. Its a very useful feature that allows easy access to common applications documents and folders. Gnome UI is such a cluster of screwups anyway, its basically unuseable. The workflow is simply terrible. Seems to be influenced by mobile touch interfaces. People need to realize that the mobile and desktop formats require completely different UI paradigms. Really anyone who has ever worked on mobile programming should be barred from touching desktop UIs.

[schmidtbag]

That's good - I still use desktop icons. Not much, pretty much just anything I don't use often but still have an intention on using.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

desktop icons will now be better supported aross multiple monitors

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma Remains Committed To Supporting Icons On The Desktop

While GNOME upstream is removing support for desktop icons with that code having fallen into an unmaintained state over the years, KDE Plasma developers are reaffirming their commitment to supporting desktop icons...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Will-Continue-With-Icons