Re: Display home dir
My question to the group is: what is wrong with a directory in each
user's home directory called "Desktop"? I'd love to see this
approach. MacOS X (which I think has a reasonably good GUI) does this,
and that other operating system that shall not be named does something
similar too (it puts it as a directory called "Desktop" in each user's
profile). I would also like to see other important folders like
"Documents" and "Trash" at the same level as well (in the user's home
directory). Again, good GUIs like OS X's do this exact thing.
I have always wondered why in Linux (at least in Gnome, haven't used KDE
in a loooong time) I can't easily save a document to the desktop. In the
Open and Save dialog boxes there is no easy way to open the desktop
folder. This a major pain in the ass, at least for me. If there's
something I am missing here please enlighten me.
I see a lot of problems with the "use your home directory as your
desktop" approach, like "I want to see dot files, even in the desktop
folder". If we use our home directory as our desktop then we're
screwed because there are just to many dot files there.
I personally would not like to see the Linux GUIs going down that route,
it doesn't sound right to me. But that is just me, I understand others
don't have a problem with this.
Cheers,
Eloy.-
Ole Laursen <olau@hardworking.dk> writes:
> Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 07:08, Michael Toomim wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > ...that I can't just get rid of, since they store data for various
> > > applications. Do you guys all deal with 15 extra folders sitting on
> > > your desktop (maybe hide them under a panel or something), or do you
> > > just delete these things (and boycott their respective applications
> > > forever)?
>
> Well, some I boycott :-), some I configure to use dot names, and the
> rest I simply put in a corner where I won't notice them. The only real
> annoyances left are #.bbdb# and #.newsrc.dribble# which keep coming
> and going. But I think it's just a question of time and perhaps bug
> reports to the relevant developers.
>
> And then someone should augment Nautilus with a list of ignored files
> for the home directory, somewhat like .cvsignore. In fact, I've just
> filed a bug about that:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104632
>
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> Ole Laursen
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>
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