We now have a test PPA available that shows off potentially a key new part of 19.04 Ubuntu Budgie We would love to get feedback - and thus we have made this PPA available for all 18.04/18.10 and early 19.04 users to test with. We are calling the new part of 19.04 “Active Desktop”. As you know the…

Installed the Active Desktop today to play around with it a bit. Looks really cool and appealing. A great tool. One thing I noticed was that I am unable to add a link to hidden folders like home/.themes to the Active Desktop. Folders inside the /.themes folder can be added without any problem. I don…

What is the use-case here to access hidden folders from the desktop on a regular manner? I can’t think why someone would need to-do that regularly. From a file-manager - yeah I agree it makes more sense. I agree with the new folder observation - please can you raise it upstream: https://github.co…

I actually access the (hidden) .themes folder quite frequently. Lately, more than once a day. Just found it an unexpected behavior and thought I communicate, since you ask for feedback and I didn’t know if this is intended. Of course, it is your decision if the feature is included, or not. I would…

No harm in posing the hidden folders question upstream. When raising it though - add the reason why - because the maintainer may just ask the same question as me!!

[image] fossfreedom: We will not be using nautilus by default in 19.04; we will be switching to nemo Oh. Why ? ( and why not ? )

Hahah, wasn’t “Active Desktop” the Microsoft name for that awful feature in Windows 98 where you could have a webpage be your background?

Ouch… I think you’re right :wink: That said, there are some web pages which could be useful as a background…

[image] fossfreedom: We will not be using nautilus by default in 19.04; we will be switching to nemo That’s good news. Get the newest Nemo 4.06 using deb http://packages.linuxmint.com tessa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main Adding gpg key; sudo apt-key adv --keyserver key…

you really shouldnt mix binaries built for different distro’s. You’ll create a Frankenstein distro like linux mint where you can’t be sure where stability issues are a result of. You really should only use binaries from source built specifically for your version of ubuntu. The desktopicons testin…

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