Re: SV: [Nautilus-list] Desktop folder

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 10:17, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> Maybe it is the same reason why netscape uses ~/nsmail :-(
> However, it was 'discussed' 1-3 months ago on the evo mailinglists. No
> one from the developers cares about this issue although this is done in
> 5 minutes (even when introducing an environment variable like
> EVOLUTION_MAIL=${HOME}/.evolution for that such that things do not
> break). However people seem to like the idea to avoid ${HOME}/evolution.

It is not a 5 minute thing.  It requires quite a few changes to be done
right.

Anyways, as I said, we are going to make it configurable.

> I just tried desktop == $HOME. And I do now ask myself why I did not
> have it like this from start. The only problem with that solution are
> applications that can not be configured to create their working dirs in
> $HOME which I consider to be a bug. I would even like to move as many 
> ${HOME}/.files as possible to ${HOME}/etc/ (and there without dot) 
> which makes much more sense since ${HOME} is like / for the hard disk.

You can't change all the apps in the world.

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Ettore