Re: Should Desktop = Home?

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

Samuel Abels wrote:
> Glancing through my $HOME folder I see several directories
> created by applications that break the common rules of prepending ".".
>
> Among the folders that I have never created manually are "C" (wine
> default),
> "ccl" (freecraft), "dcc" (no idea), "music" (no idea), "evolution"
> (I'm still running an old Evo, this should be solved with evo-2.0).
> Plus, there are "visible" files created by (probably the same)
> applications.
>
> Also, the home folder is sometimes used to install user-specific
> applications. Of course, you could collect them into a subfolder ~/bin/,
> but would you want that visible on the desktop? Well, I guess you
> wouldn't.

Aren't most of these folders that could easily live somewhere else than 
in the $HOME (and maybe should)? Like you said, Evolution 2.0 is already 
hiding its dir.

Steven Garrity