wizard wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:19 pm
@stevie pup
Now anytime you want to access your favorites you can either click on the desktop icon or the taskbar icon. It is very convenient and have used this setup for years, mine is named mydesk. I like it because it's totally customizable, it can be as little or much as you want.
mydesk.jpg
wizard
It's funny so many people are recommending this approach, because that's the way I handled the desktop when I was a windows user.
Although all this mention of it is tempting me to do it again in puppy. The jackalpup re-master I use has Cairo dock pre-installed, like the old puppy-studio once did, and at first I found it a bit annoying, so the first thing I would do is get rid of it. However, once I looked at what it can actually do, and how to customize it, I'm finding it extremely neat and easy to organize. There are advantages to having a dock below and the taskbar tray/taskbar up-top. When an application is open, the configuration allows any window to be restored with the option nearest the current mouse position.
I always tried to clean up the windows launcher menu, deleting and alphabetizing the entries, etc. In windows I was also an avid user of Classic Shell. But with puppy I tend to view the menu more as a mass repository of installed menu-item applications. Docks, trays, hot-keys, and file-manager windows seem a far better approach.
A couple weeks back my desktop look liked this, and there were launchers I wouldn't use just because the desktop was getting crowded: 
Everything in the dock
and it now looks like this:
sawmill grill oxford
See the thread broken off from Show Us Your Desktop located here: viewtopic.php?f=100&t=3839 to see the evolution.
@JASpup I have been truly productive and windows free on pup ever since Fossapup rolled out. In the end I believe it's a matter of practice and understanding which tools do the job, and it's similar to the choices I make when playing and composing music. By trial and error I assess things like learning curve, dependability, stability, and flexibility to make decisions on what systems and apps to invest my energy. I started using puppy around the time Lucid hit the scene, so I first was on 433, and I liked it because it reminded me of the 'good-ol days' of computing. Lucid was so much of a step up in my opinion, that it was a no-brainer to go with the next release, and that's has been the case with every mainline distro. The audio studio, puppy-studio/studio 1337, and now the jackalpup re-master of Fossapup, which were so crucial to develop for me to be productive in musical work, represent a 10 year long evolution of practice and development to come to a place where productivity for me is a given.
And that's a great place to be, because now I'm so comfortable with it that I'm more concerned with personalizing the workflow and aesthetic rather than knowing I can accomplish my necessary work tasks.