On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 08:13, Ole Laursen wrote: > peloy@chapus.net (Eloy A. Paris) writes: > > > 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. > > The reason I dislike this is that it gives you two "separate" > hierarchies to manage - your home folder and your magic desktop > folder. When I was running Windows, this always bothered me and I > never put anything else than links on the desktop. Which made it an > incomplete duplicate of the start menu, i.e. essentially useless. :-) > > It just seems so natural having the desktop as the home. I also > suspect newcomers will understand the desktop as home dir idea better. > What you see is what you have. > > > [...] > > > 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'm confused a bit here: I've used nautilus with the "use your home directory as your desktop" approach for at least six months now, and have never seen any dot files or directories on my desktop. > However, this can be fixed. It's just a question of Nautilus being > more sensible/flexible. -- First Impressions are Bunk.
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