Re: [Nautilus-list] Desktop folder

[<bordoley msu edu>]

In an earlier ximian snapshot ( i think 1.1.13) i had a desktop directory. I
have no objection to leaving .gnome-desktop, but could we also just include a
desktop symlink so that newbies can save stuff to the desktop easily. For
example if the user wants to save downloaded files from mozilla its impossible
because the mozilla file selector, similar to the gtk file selector, doesn't
show hidden files.

dave

Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com> said:

> On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 bordoley msu edu wrote:
> 
> > Could we do this, or at least by default just include a symlink in the home
> > directory to the .gnome-desktop called desktop. Thats how i used to do it
> > gnome 1.4. I think making the desktop directory easily accesible to newbies
> > (who shouldn't need to know about hidden files) is important.
> 
> This change was done a long time ago by miguel. Even in the later gnome 
> 1.4 versions of nautilus it is in ~/.gnome-desktop. I think this was 
> introduced in 1.0.3. I'm not sure we should change this again.
> 
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