Re: Display home dir
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 19:01, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> 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.
Well, this is the idea of using $HOME as your desktop. Just drop the
files into your home. That's what I, and many others, do. There was a
good paper on it, can't recall the link, Google might do you wonders
there tho. ;-) It's when you start mandating sub-folders like Documents
and such that it gets annoying. "Documents" is meaningless to me, I
don't have many "Documents". I do have my various coding projects, and
school work, and digital camera images of me and friends, and funny
movies I download, etc. - about the only there that feels like a
"Document" is schoolwork. I prefer having my own set of directories,
"Homework", "Code", "Movies", "Images", "Downloads", etc. In my home
directory. And thus on my desktop. It works quite well for me. Just
so long as nobody says, "Hey, you *have* to have a Documents and Trash
folder!"
The same can be said for forcing people to put their Desktop as their
$HOME tho, since then you are saying, "any files you want in your home
dir, have to be on your desktop." If Nautilus just had a "hide file"
method (without renaming to a .dir name), it would at least solve that
one tho...
>
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Ole Laursen
> > http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/
> >
> >
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