Just started using XFCE after leaving Gnome, and noticed that the XFCE Desktop displays all the backup files ( ending with a '~' character) of text files, which unnecessarily clutters the Desktop. Hidding such files like Gnome does, would improve usability I find..
Since it's a trivial fix in the code, I pushed it straight to master: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=91f8183252ed809502b1ff36cd51a385e9f11848 Thanks for reporting the issue.