Re: Major change in desktop handling
- From: Dave Camp <dave ximian com>
- To: MArk Finlay <sisob eircom net>
- Cc: Nautilus <nautilus-list gnome org>, "desktop-devel-list gnome org" <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, "gnome-hackers gnome org" <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Major change in desktop handling
- Date: 16 May 2003 00:33:26 -0400
Here's my objection to $HOME-as-the-desktop:
Nautilus' desktop should be a user-managed space. System-managed files
do not belong on the desktop, even if they are hidden.
$HOME is the root of the user's writable filesystem. All files owned by
the user must be placed somewhere in $HOME (except for special cases
like tmp files) - there's just nowhere else to put them.
So if you use $HOME as the desktop, you are forcing system-managed files
to be on the desktop (even if they are hidden by default). This doesn't
make any sense - if a user turns on 'Show Hidden Files', they don't want
their desktop cluttered with a bunch of system-managed files.
.gnome-desktop was a pain to use as a document directory, because file
selectors defaulted to $HOME, and you couldn't get to ~/.gnome-desktop
without knowing where to go and typing it in. Using ~/Desktop improves
that. Making file selectors default to ~/Desktop will improve it
further, in keeping with the idea of the desktop as a place for
user-managed files.
-dave
On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 19:11, MArk Finlay wrote:
> If were going to have this argument then I think that now is as
> good a time as any. One thing we don't want to do is to migrate to
> ~/Desktop and then to ~/
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