On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 23:15 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > We already have a ton of examples of the GUI user model not mapping to > the shell model; look at your Desktop, Home, and Computer as displayed > by nautilus; Desktop/Home is cleared by making Desktop == $HOME. This also brings the benefit of being integrated with the filesystem, and all the user's stuff is directly accessible from there on. It's _way_ simpler! > look at the file selector; Desktop == $HOME cleans this too. > look at non-file: URIs in gnome- > vfs. This was fait accompli long ago. And as I mentioned in my previous > post, GNOME is doing this to a lesser extent than any of its competitors > (OS X, Longhorn, Workplace). The point here isn't that we currently have > it right, only that it's hardly a new or radical idea to diverge from > the shell on what the universe of files looks like. Yes. But a wrong idea. Also because justifications like "broken apps" or "Windows/KDE/... do it that way" just don't quite cut it. It can be donne better, systematically more integrated with the system, everyone wins. Rui
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