Re: the vfolder-desktop method

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Diego González <diego pemas net> writes:
> 
> 	i've been playing today with the vfolder-desktop method and nautilus
> trying to fix some of the menu editting bugs. I think that the vfolder
> thingy is very complicated, and i don't reach to see its usefulness,
> what is more, i think that a directory based approach (like gnome 1.4
> did) is a lot better and easier. Maybe i'm not seeing something.
> 
> 	can somebody explain me how the vfolders thingy is more useful than a
> directory based approach?
> 

The directory approach means that you can't change the menu layout
without modifying all applications. This was why when Ximian improved
the menu layout in Ximian GNOME, all non-Ximian applications
disappeared.

Havoc
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