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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Shahms E. King" <shahms shahms com> writes:
> 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 ...
> 

A desktop: URI is quite a nice idea, I think.

Havoc