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

[Rami Valta <rami valta pp inet fi>]

On 13 Apr 2001 23:56:56 -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
> Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
 
> >Now at this point I tried to say something like "Well. it takes 10
> >minutes to clean it up with nautilus.. and you make subdirs on your
> >homedir anyway to organize your stuff, right?" but usually the emotional
> >charge for even mentioning the "$HOME should be the desktop" is too
> >strong for most people to overcome and actually listen to me.. Sigh.
> >
> 
> I think it is the opposite.  I don't want all the application launcher 
> files in my $HOME.

I don't think having application lauchers on your desktop is a very good
idea. Rather than giving quick access to your _applications_, desktop
should give you quick access to your _documents_. Start you apps from
Gnome panel or use keybindings.

> >I know this is not a perfect solution. Bad Things happen if you rename
> >the ~/evolution or ~/Nautilus or ~/nsmail dirs for example. But all
> >these things could be solved somehow. A list of "common things to hide
> >on the desktop" for example. Maybe automatically hide those for Novice
> >user level? Whatever.
> >
> 
> Way too complex.  Not all file managers will implement it and people who 
> shouldn't will set prefs. to advanced.  I know.  I provide tech support 
> for them!

~/evolution and ~/Nautilus should be changed to dot files anyway. I
don't know if netscape can easily be changed to use ~/.nsmail. There's
nothing in ~/evolution that I'd want to access on regular basis, and
things in ~/Nautilus could as well be on my desktop (services already
is) except for the scripts directory, that could as well be on
~/.nautilus.

Dot files might as well always be hidden in the desktop. Anyone who
wants to modify them probably knows how to do that outside of nautilus.

> >The above is what my desktop looked like after I symlinked it. So I know
> >it gets messy. But the other thing is after 10 minutes it wasnt like
> >that anymore. And I had planned to clean it up for 3 years now...
> >Watch a hardcore shell-user love a graphical shell for a change :)

Nautilus did that to me too. And helped me clean up my home directory as
well.


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