Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

Le ven 16/05/2003 �7:23, Daniel Borgmann a �it :
> 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...
> 

With the difference that we would have a "Desktop" folder in Documents,
which would sound strange... and file selectors would then default to
Documents instead of Desktop.

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