Re: Major change in desktop handling
- From: "Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>
- To: Julien Olivier <julo altern org>
- Cc: Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>, "desktop-devel-list gnome org" <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Major change in desktop handling
- Date: 16 May 2003 15:57:06 +0100
A Sex, 2003-05-16 às 15:46, Julien Olivier escreveu:
> > All apps that do this, I meant. For example, several IRC clients I've
> > used require a ~/ddc folder for file transfers. (probably a bug, but
> > good luck getting it fixed.) Several commercial apps, for example
> > RealPlayer, make folders that store music/video samples and downloads.
> >
>
> Maybe a good way to solve this is to create a ~/Documents by default.
> X-Chat could then use ~/Documents/DCC to store DCC files and RealPlayer
> could store music in ~/Documents/RealMedia or something like that. I'm
> pretty sure that's how most apps do it on Windows, putting all their
> stuff in "My Documents".
90% [1] (probably more) of applications out there don't care about
GNOME integration at all. The end result would be that you either run
only "GNOME compliant" apps, or else get a desktop cluttered with
unsolicited folders. I want to run non-GNOME apps *and* keep a clean
desktop. $HOME as desktop just makes it really impossible.
By the way, doesn't KDE use ~/Desktop already? If so, it makes more
sense to use that too. Windowmaker uses ~/GNUStep, IIRC (though it has
no "desktop"). We begin to see a pattern here...
[1] no, I can't prove this number, don't ask me that; it's only a
guess/impression.
--
Gustavo João Alves Marques Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
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