Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 18:33, iain wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 22:00, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Actually, I said this too at one point, but then I changed it and
> discovered that the only program I have a problem with was Evolution
> (damn it), and lynx (on the vague occasions that I use it). I
> reconfigured my apache so that ~/Web Site was my website directory and
> that makes publishing my web site stuff very easy. Well, that combined
> with spring loaded folders. Mmmmmm

Quite a few other commercial apps do this.  For example, RealPlayer. 
Also, alternative desktops like GNUStep, iirc, put a bunch of folders in
$HOME.  A number of apps create data directories as well, like some evil
IRC clients (for file transfers), some CD rippers, and so on.  They're
all configurable to use different directories, but this is after the
fact.

Then add in things like the public_html folders many have, the ~/tmp
folder some systems use, or ~/mnt and so on...

> 
> iain
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.