Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [Usability] user levels, etc.

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 09:49, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> 
> > On that subject, Nautilus seems to be creating a "david's Home" icon on the
> > desktop even when the desktop is ~/ -- if I delete it, it ends up getting
> > recreated next time Nautilus starts or restarts. Is that expected behavior?
> 
> Yes.  I was going to turn it off in the RH patches, until I started
> finding it pretty darn useful.  Often I have a partially obscured
> desktop.  When I want to do something in the home directory, I find it
> easier to find the home icon and do it in the window, than trying to
> make room on the desktop.

Useful, but still, I think, counterintuitive. Especially because if
Joe User's using ~/ as the desktop, he probably doesn't think of it
as "Joe's Home", he thinks of it as "Joe's Desktop". And it's also a
bit weird for things to contain themselves. Maybe something like a
right-click menu item called "View Desktop in Window"? (That would be
even more useful 'cause you wouldn't have to find the icon, just a
free pixel of desktop space.)

--D