On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 05:43, dave bordoley wrote: > Saying sun won't change JRE to respect nautilus is a little short > sighted isn't, I mean nautilus is going to be their DEFAULT file manager > pretty soon for solaris. I think they'd might be willing to fix that. > > And no one here is saying that everyone should use it, other than a lot > of us find that it makes complete sense. > > Regarding the KMAIL and Windowmaker files, I think you underestimate us. > I actually think if we commnunicated with those groups that they would > be willing to consider making their directory folders hidden. Of course, even Evolution has a ~/evolution directory... At the same time, those programmers who really felt the need to have a non-dot file in the home dir should be able to use a dot file and then symlink a non-dot file to it. --Ben > dave > > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 06:20, Marten Payne wrote: > > I tried the home = desktop option in Nautilus for a few weeks and found > > that in practice home != desktop. Because GNOME (the desktop being > > represented by Nautilus) and its affiliated applications are a mere > > subset of the Linux application pantheon, the fact is that many > > non-gnome apps use the home directory in a way that makes "home = > > desktop" a serious inconvenience. KMail will not change its default mail > > directory for Nautilus. Sun will not change the JRE plugin tracefile > > location for Nautilus. KDE will not change the location of the "Desktop" > > folder for Nautilus. WindowMaker will not change the location of its > > GNUstep folder for Nautilus. Having some hack mask which has Nautilus > > "hard code" these as invisible is less than good. > > > > You probably get the point I am trying to make; specifically that the > > GNOME desktop should be implemented in a way that "plays nice" with all > > the non-GNOME apps which were written with the assumption that home != > > desktop in mind. Before some decision is made on how the desktop > > location is implemented, _please_ test this with a range of users > > (specifically people who are not developers). Then run it past the GNOME > > usability guys. > > > > Marten. > > > > > Well you guys did convince me home as desktop is the way to go. :) > > > > > dave > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > nautilus-list mailing list > > nautilus-list lists eazel com > > http://lists.eazel.com/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list > > > _______________________________________________ > nautilus-list mailing list > nautilus-list lists eazel com > http://lists.eazel.com/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list >
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