Re: [Nautilus-list] nautilus and gnome-vfs

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 6 Mar 2002, Shahms E. King wrote:

> While reading the recent thread about .desktop file editing in Nautilus,
> it occurred to me that the desktop itself should probably be a gnome-vfs
> URI (desktop:/// anyone?) so I actually took the five minutes to add to
> the libdesktop module in gnome-vfs (the appropriate change in nautilus
> was similarly trivial), in fact the changes were so simple (and come
> with so many other potential benefits, like, say administrator mandated
> desktop items -- has some drawback, but I digress) without impacting
> Nautilus' ability to "Use Home Directory as Desktop" that I figured I'd
> ask why before submitting the appropriate patches ...

You mean why we haven't done this before? The libdesktop module is quite 
new, and I just think we haven't thought of it yet.

How do you handle the "Use Home Directory as Desktop" preference though?

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