KDE: get rid of folder icons?

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. See SystemSettings=>Desktop=>Behavior.
There are settings for all sorts of files, but not for directories, which
are, after all, just files.

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? Thanks for your help.

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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On Thu, 08 May 2008 15:41:47 +0000, Dances With Crows wrote:

> 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 don't have a ~/Desktop directory. 'cd;ls' returns this:
bin MyMusic save squeak temp tmp
And those are the labels on the icons on the left side of my screen.
I want to get rid of those icons. 'tmp' is a link to temp. I checked
~/.kde, no Desktop directory there either. $HOME has lots of dot-files,
no sign of .desktop or .Desktop or anything similar.