Re: Should Desktop = Home?

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

Matthew Gatto wrote:
> * Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com> [04.10.02 15:35]:
> > 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

I've read through both that thread and that bug. There was some good 
debate about the merits and drawbacks of $Home as Desktop, and I can 
understand why the current arrangement was reached. ~/Desktop is simple 
and matches with KDE. There was also no clear consensus on the $Home as 
Desktop issue, so I can understand why it wasn't done.

However, I'm still not convinced it's a bad idea. I've set my own system 
up to use $Home as Desktop and will use it for a few weeks.

Much of this debate was 6 months to 1 year old as well. I don't think 
it's a worthless re-hash to revisit the issue now that we've had 
~/Desktop for a while now.

As for legacy apps dumping stuff in the $Home dir, I'm using a system 
that has had Fedora Core 2 on it for about 5 months. The only think 
cluttery/crufty that I have in my $Home dir is a $Home/bin dir with some 
shortcuts.

Steven Garrity