Re: Should Desktop = Home?

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:27:02 -0300, Steven Garrity wrote:
> > Should we merge the Home directory with the Desktop directory?
>
> Wasn't this topic beaten to death a few years ago?  I think nautilus
> needs a rationales.txt file in CVS explaining various decisions that
> have been made, in order to make them easier to find and reference in
> emails like this (kind of like Metacity has--see
> http://tinyurl.com/5glqo).  I tried finding one of the emails where
> the final decision was stated, but my google-fu seemed to be coming up
> short and all I saw was various emails about the various arguments
> being made...

Yeah, I figured this was probably debated and decided years ago. 
However, I couldn't turn anything up. Can anyone enlighten us as to the 
official reasoning for the current setup?

Thanks,
Steven Garrity