Re: Display home dir
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:36:33AM -0500, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> 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.
What about having nautilus display a special icon, which, when opened
will give you a view of your homedirectory with only the dot files in it ?
Sven Luther
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