Roland Latour staggered into the Black Sun and said:
> I just upgraded to Kubuntu 8.04. I now have onscreen folder icons for
> every directory in $HOME. I would like to get rid of the icons,
> without getting rid of the directories.

Your question is a bit unclear. Do you mean "every dir that was in ~
now has a symlink in ~/Desktop/ , so KDE displays tons of dirs on the
desktop window"? If so, the solution is obvious, go to ~/Desktop/ in
your favorite file manager and rm everything that you don't want to be
there.

> I like the Device Icon settings, and don't want to modify them. I just
> prefer to deal with files the old-fashioned way, i.e., I prefer vi to
> kate and mkdir to click-click. Is there any way to unclutter the
> screen in this manner?

It's difficult to give exact directions as I don't know precisely what's
going on with your system. If there are too many symlinks in ~/Desktop,
then it's reasonably easy to fix. If some automated process scans ~ for
dirs and creates desktop icons, this is a lousy design decision by the
Kubuntu developers.

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