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

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Rami Valta wrote:

> 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 am sorry, but that is the way I like it.  I don't plan on changing 
just because you all have this crazy idea.

> > > 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. 
Sure, just edit the source . . . . um, ya. . no source . . . 

> 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.