Re: Major change in desktop handling

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 14:00, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 16:48, MArk Finlay wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 21:31, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > So Alex - yesterday you complain about list traffic, today you
> > > triple-crosspost a thread about ~/Desktop vs. ~/.gnome-desktop
> > > vs. "desktop is your homedir" ;-)
> > > 
> > > <aol/> vote for ~/Desktop !
> > 
> > Co[$HOME as desktop]ugh
> 
> Actually, as a until-very-recently proponent of $HOME as desktop, I
> think ~/Desktop is probably better; the reasoning being so many stupid
> _argh!_ programs make folders in $HOME
> 

Right, there are many of us that have moved to ~/.etc/<app> for config
files.  It makes a lot of sense.  All applications developers please
consider this.


> -- 
> George Farris <george gmsys com>