Re: Proposal: gnome-user-share

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 09:20 +1000, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> 
> When the first great '$HOME as desktop' flamewar ended, the point that
> seemed to decide the issue in favour of ~/Desktop was the fact that
> there were many 3rd-party apps that (ab)used $HOME to store their own
> data in a user-visible fashion [1].
> 

Yes, but ~/Public *is* user documents and data just as ~/Desktop is. The
user can freely delete ~/Public if they don't want to put anything in
it. It's not like ~/Evolution where you had to have that if you wanted
to use Evolution.

$HOME should not be used for "implementation detail" files, with the
exception of dotfiles. Only user-should-care files. But ~/Public should
contain user-should-care files, so it makes sense in a $HOME non-
dotfile.

Havoc