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

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le sam, 14 avr 2001 10:12:05, Jeff Waugh a écrit :
>
> > <quote who="Ben Ford">
> >
> > > So how is $HOME and the desktop any different from "My
> > Documents" and 
> >
> > > the desktop?  You will confuse the  *hell* out of
> > windows users with 
> >
> > > this idea!
> > $HOME is a much more powerful concept than "My Documents",
> > and is central to
> > networking workstations, yada.
> >
> > I don't think using the "but what about the Windows
> > users!" plea is relevant
> > here (at all), nor would I like to see the horrendous mess
> > of magic files and
> > folders on that platform replicated in GNOME.
>
> Yes. Oh please not the horrible convoluted and half hidden
> user file hierarchy of Win2k. Keep it unix. KISS
What is so "un-simple" about this?

/home/ben
/home/ben/desktop

Why clutter my $HOME with application lauchers and URLs and  such?  Why 
clutter my desktop with the software I am compiling?  If somebody wants 
to see their home directory there is a big freakin icon that says "home 
directory", how hard can it be?

Keeping it simple means having separate directories, for $HOME and the 
desktop.  Not combining them and then writing a whole mess of filters so 
that nsmail, ns_imap, etc. don't show up!

And nobody ever proposed win2k's jackass scheme.


-b

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