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

[Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas mailhot email enst fr>]

Le ven, 13 avr 2001 20:17:29, Pavel Cisler a écrit :
> 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.

In the case of 1., that means one don't add caps locks for
the look of it because that'll just be a pain for users of
cli (and in the Gnome case in all dialogs where you can use
completion).

As for your point, I won't comment on OS X and BeOS since
I've never used them, but I suppose that when you use only
gui's the fact there is another cli home is just irrelevant.
I don't suppose you expect cli usage disappear in Linux all
of a sudden ?

-- 
Nicolas