Why GNOME doesn't allow icons on desktop:
Ebassi sat at the long table in the conference room, his fingers tapping the edge of his laptop. The team was reviewing the new GNOME. Simple stuff. But something in Ebassi's eyes had changed.
"Desktop icons," he said quietly at first. "They should not be there."
The project lead, Maria, smiled. "They make things visible and easy to access, Ebassi. That's the point."
Ebassi's head jerked up. "Visible? Easy? You want the enemy right in front of you every single time you open the machine? No. No. Icons are spies. They sit there. Watching. Waiting for you to click. One click and they drag you into their world."
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