Re: Should Desktop = Home?

[Matthew Gatto <poobar nycap rr com>]

* Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com> [04.10.02 15:35]:
> 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?

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-May/msg00673.html
http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94612