Re: SV: [Nautilus-list] Desktop folder

[David Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

Even after tigert tried his best to convince me on nautilus irc last
nite, i still hate this idea.

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 09:12, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 12:06, Chris Heywood wrote:
> 
>     I don't recall, what's the reasoning for evolution having the directory
>     called that?  I've seen threads around about it before, but I don't
>     really recall.  like I've seen people say, it's not like there's a great
>     deal a user can do, or would do frequently in there. 
> 
> I dunno. I need to ask Ettore. Personally I wish to do a
> s/evolution/.evolution/g as soon as possible, since there really is no
> reason I can think of why it is a non-hidden dir. It's not like a user
> should be going there to poke stuff with the filemanager..
>     
>     but yeah, a solution to be able to turn off things from appearing on the
>     desktop would be a great help.  or some easy way for users to select the
>     desktop in the file selector if desktop != $HOME. 
> 
> Ximian has a patch to gtk that adds buttons for Desktop and Home. I
> guess there is a gnome file selector in the works too that should sort
> of help. But I just think the most clear and simple case is to just have
> home and desktop be the same thing.
> 
> Tuomas
>     
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