Re: shutdown from gnome logout dialog
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:07:06PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:
>
> > Evan Martin <martine@danga.com> writes:
> >> (But really, as everyone says, it's ridiculous to have a Documents
> >> button in GTK when you don't have GNOME.)
> >
> > I think it's also ridiculous to have a Documents button even if you _do_
> > have Gnome, if you don't have a Documents directory (many programs seem
> > to eagerly recreate this directory everytime I'm not looking, but I
> > re-delete it just before I uninstall that program).
>
> Which programs? I'd say that ~/Documents is completely arbitrarily
> imposed. I don't know of *any* program that cares about this directory
> or attaches special significance to it.
>
> I think that Ximian's version of nautilus always created it. But on a
> pure Debian desktop this should not happen, I'd assume.
>
> BTW: I'm actually using 'Documents' even though I initially disliked
> the idea.
That said, a /tmp button would make much more sense.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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