Re: Display home dir
Rich Rudnick <rich@pinute.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 08:36, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I still don't see the problem; nautilus does not show the dot files on
> the desktop whether or not I'm hiding or showing dot files in a window.
I'll be dammed, you're right; Nautilus is smart enough to realize that
it doesn't make sense to show dot files when your home directory is your
desktop.
> I keep this script in .gnome2/nautilus-scripts and use it to switch my
> viewing of dot files.
>
> http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/nautilus-scripts/System%20Configuration/Hide%20or%20Show%20Hidden%20Files
Well, you guys picked my curiosity. I just set my home directory as my
desktop. I'll try to free my mind from the MacOS X/Windows Desktop
paradigm in which I have lived for a long time. This is gonna be great
for saving files to the desktop from my browser and other apps.
But still, there are lots of folders I can't move somewhere else. What
do you guys do with folders like Mail, News, public_html? Those have to
stay in the desktop, right?
Cheers,
Eloy.-
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