On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 11:25:54AM -0400, Dan Winship wrote: > I can't speak for Nautilus, but in Evolution, that's not a bug, that's > a feature. Dotfiles are hidden, which is fine for config files and > other things that you want to make non-obvious. But the "evolution" > directory is used to store all of the user's local mail, contacts, > appointments, etc, which is user data, not configuration. You don't > want to hide the user's mail from him. > > As far as I know, there are no mail programs that store mail in > dotfiles or dotfile directories. > > As for configurability, yeah, you'll probably be able to change the > directory name at some point if you really want to. (As it stands now, > only the Evolution Shell hardcodes the pathname. The other components > are then told by the Shell where to put their files.) and so why the desktop is a hidden directory (.desktop)??
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