Re: Display home dir

[peloy@chapus.net (Eloy A. Paris)]

Rich Rudnick <rich@pinute.com> writes:

> > [...]
> > 
> > > 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. 

You can configure Nautilus so it shows dot files, but that setting is
turned off by default. My point was that if I want to configure Nautilus
so it shows dot files and also configure it so my home directory is the
desktop then it will be a mess because most applications put dot files
in the user's home directory, and this I think will be very hard to
change.

Eloy.-