I agree and I second that motion.fredx181 wrote:Hopefully you stay being the one in charge for this thread Fred
Desktop application icons are only for complete noobs. They are indispensible for getting started quickly. But they are useless as soon as you have four or five open windows.
With DebianDog's Openbox file manager and xfce4-panel (and the same applies to lxpanel), and with the file manager, a console terminal, a browser and a few favorite apps in the Applications Launch section of the panel, desktop application icons become irrelevant.
One advantage of Openbox over the present version of the jwm file manager which comes standard with Puppies is, a rightclick on any open point between windows on the desktop will open the main menu. Another advantage of Openbox over jwm is, middle-click on blank space anywhere on the desktop brings up a windows list. A third advantage of Openbox over jwm is the ability to set margins.
One advantage of lxpanel and xfce4-panel over the panel which comes with jwm is, multiple windows of the same application can be grouped in the taskbar, so they occupy only a single lozenge on the panel. Clicking that lozenge opens a drop-up menu with all the open windows. If you set your prompt just so in /etc/profile, so as to show the current working directory in the urxvt title bar, you can tell which directories your eleven open urxvt windows are each open in--and the same is true of the Openbox windows list.
The combination of Openbox, xfce4-panel (or lxpanel), and wbar (or cairo-dock) vanquishes any set of desktop application icons, no matter whether the standard Rox pinboard version or your nicons.
Desktop application icons then become, to the experienced user, nothing but a distracting display of clutter.
Desktop document icons, and desktop drive/partition icons, can be useful, but the logical way is to group them close together, not scatter them all over.