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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Linux, like Windows XP, does not stack a pinned launcher with open instances. Rather, it occupies a special drawer of its own, independent from the running-programs-drawer.
Personally, I find that approach superior, partially for that reason, partially because it is easier for me to see when a program is opened.
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If correctly implemented (cf. Windows 7-10 or Unity), stacking running programs over pinned programs saves LOTS of space, while still making it just as easy to see what programs are open. I find the gain in space far more advantageous.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
A lot of this is only possible, though, by using the freedesktop.org Category standards embedded in the launcher shortcuts. I am waiting for Microsoft to finally catch on to the need for something like this, but I suspect I will wait for decades.
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More options=more ways for the end user to break it. That said, Explorer.exe can be edited if you REALY want it to look different.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
In this one area of desktop structuring (start menus, and for that matter desktop pinning as well*), I strongly believe linux has been and is and will most probably continue to be vastly superior to Windows, in every way!
* -- whose insane idea was it to make non-privileged users unable to delete a shortcut installed to the admin-only shared desktop settings folder?
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I would hazzard a guess that it was some IT department that was sick and tired of people messing up stuff and running to them.