Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Daniel Borgmann <spark-mailinglists web de>]

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 16:46, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > 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".

Or we could just rename the $HOME icon on the desktop to "Documents" for
the same result with much less trouble...

Daniel

(No, I'm not seriously advocating to call it "Documents")