RE: Major change in desktop handling

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 08:11, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: Julien Olivier [mailto:julo altern org] 
> > The thing is that very few apps create folders in ~/, so it could be
> > easy to convince them to change their behaviour.
> 
> Nothing is that easy. But I think what you'll never avoid is some people
> using $HOME as an install prefix. So you'll never avoid
> $HOME/bin, $HOME/lib, $HOME/include, and so on.
> 
> I wish we could just use $HOME as the desktop, but reality prevents it. Time
> to move on.

a) People's behaviors change (for example, I use ~/Applications now)
b) The desktop can easily handle the number of folders generated by
using $HOME as an install prefix

-Seth