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Sean Harshbarger

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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 belive this is about being flexible. We should be able to easily tell
gnome, kde, whatever, what are "Dektop" folder is. I would say default
with a subdir Desktop, but then be able to turn the applications esilly
to be whatever we want.
> 
> 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.

This is most likely because gnome uses a .gnome-desktop folder. The vfs
dosnt really see it all the time unless it is setup to display dotfiles.
KDE on the other hand uses a Desktop which is seen as a regular folder.
If you want to save to the .gnome-desktop I would make a link to it
called Desktop or what not.
> 
> 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.

You can hide the dot files...and since in gnome2 nautilus controls the
desktop...simply telling nautilus to hide dotfiles does the trick.
> 
> 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.

Again gnome just needs to have the flexability to do what the user
wants.
> 
> 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
> > 
I would just have the respectable software programmers have a option to
tell it what folder to use...let it be .evolution instead of evolution
for example.

> > -- 
> > Ole Laursen
> > http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/
> > 
> > 
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