Re: [Nautilus-list] Integration of gmc and nautilus desktop directories.

[Pavel Cisler <pavel eazel com>]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> Le ven, 13 avr 2001 15:21:32, Cesar Cardoso a écrit :
> > Em 13 Apr 2001 07:46:22 +0200, Alfonso Landin Piñeiro
> > escreveu:
> >
> > > Seeing this i think the best solution would be to make
> > the home
> > > directory the desktop directory (as someone mentioned
> > before in this
> > > thread). No naming problems, no cycling between both
> > direcories (they
> > > are the same), all file managers can use the same dir,
> > etc...
> >
> > Tigert said the very same thing. I don't like it. I prefer
> > a ~/Desktop
> > thing,
> 
> I hate it :
> 
> 1. the uppercase D is just not unixish and conflicts with
> the whole file hierarchy.
> 
> 2. it's an i18n nightmare
> 
> 3. you'll have to explain to new users why they have a
> different unix and gui home. The notion of a special
> directory is difficult enougth without duplicating it
> 

Hmm..., I wonder why having separate home and desktop folders doesn't work on
Linux but works great on OS X and BeOS. Guess neither are "unixish" enough,
whatever that's supposed to mean.

Pavel